PSC Contractors Agreements

Designed for use for a range of trades and professions, these PSC Contractors Agreements carefully regulate the relationship between a contractor’s Service Company and his clients. This collection of up-to-date, solicitor drafted templates provides for the self-employed contractor to contract with a client through the contractor’s intermediary company (either a Personal Service Company (PSC) or other intermediary company), not personally and directly as a sole trader.

How to determine whether these PSC Contractor Agreements are Suitable?

The first download, Guidance Note on Employment, Self-employment, and IR35, is a detailed explanation of the distinction between employment and self-employment and the impact of IR35 rules in respect of PSCs (or other intermediary company/entity), covering the use of a PSC including when, why, and how an individual might decide to use such an intermediary. This is supported by Employment, Self-employment and IR35 Checklists which will help determine the legal relationship between an individual worker and their client. The IR35 Status Determination Statement is designed to help a client comply with IR35 legislation where clients are required to issue a Status Determination Statement (SDS) in respect of a "medium" or "large" company.

If unsure or undecided please seek professional advice.

Self-employed sole trader versions can be downloaded at Self-Employed Agreements.

What Contracts Are Provided within PSC Contractors Agreements?

The listed contracts combine a selection of service company "standard" agreements and chair rental agreements for use in salons.

The service company templates include a Contractor (Service Company) Agreement which is highly customisable, flexible and broadly applicable to a variety of trades, services and roles. It is best suited to professional and/or technical freelancers (including IT consultants, engineers, designers), situations requiring formal structure and IP protection and contractors who might subcontract or use support staff. The Clerical & Administrative Contractor (Service Company) Agreement has narrower scope, fewer clauses, and simpler language; substitution is allowed subject to client consultation; has no data protection clauses or detailed IP arrangements (assuming low sensitivity of data). As its title implies, it is best for clerical and administrative roles with minimal complexity or risk, and short-term engagements. The Sales Contractor (Service Company) Agreement is designed for sales-focused roles providing for remuneration comprising a fee plus commission (including commission for post-termination sales resulting from the contractor's pre-termination activities), and conflict of interest and exclusivity protection (during term of the contract). It is best suited to sales agents, business development freelancers and field representatives.

The selection of chair rental agreements are for freelance contractors who are hairdressers, beauty therapists, and nail technicians, to rent a chair from a salon through the freelancer's personal service company, either to serve the freelancer's own clients or to serve their own clients and any salon customers occasionally referred to them by the salon. These templates are quite similar to each other. An example of the "own clients" only templates is the Hairdresser Chair Rental (Service Company) Agreement (Own Clients) and of the "own clients and salon customers" is the Hairdresser Chair Rental (Service Company) Agreement (Own and Salon Clients).

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