What the official record says
This Act is the Sleepover Wages (Settlement) Act . This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent. The purposes of this Act are— to facilitate the settlement of civil proceedings between certain parties about the payment of wages at the minimum rate prescribed under the Minimum Wage Act 1983 to employees who are allowed by their employer to sleep overnight at their workplace while on duty; and to provide for a staged progression towards full compliance with the Minimum Wage Act 1983 in respect of the wages payable to certain employees who perform sleepovers; and to provide a mechanism for extending the application of to other employers that are funded through a Vote and to those employers' employees to enable, among other things, disputes that inv