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You can charge fees as an entertainment and modelling agency for finding someone work.

The fees you charge depend on if the person is:

• a performer or worker
• a model

Terms and conditions of your service and your fees must be agreed in writing (for example, in a contract) with the worker, performer or model.

These must include details of:

• the work-finding services that you鈥檒l provide them
• any authority you have to act on behalf of them
• any authorisations to receive any money on behalf of them
• any fees or commissions you鈥檒l charge for finding work
• how your fee or commission will be paid
• how any commissions or fees will be refunded
• the length of time the worker, performer or model needs to give to end the contract
• the length of time you need to give to end a worker, performer or models鈥檚 contract

Promotional fees for performers and entertainment workers (not models)

You can only charge upfront fees for listing the worker or performer鈥檚 details in promotional publications or on websites to help them find work.

You must give the worker or performer a chance to see any copies.

Other fees or commission for finding work normally come out of the worker or performer鈥檚 earnings from the employment that you found.

Fees for promoting performers

You can only charge fees 30 days after the start of the contract (if there is a fee for promoting a performer).

You need to show the performer any promotional photographs, audio or video before its published. They then have 7 days to object to anything being used.

You can鈥檛 charge the performer until the 7 days is over or you鈥檝e dealt with any reasonable requirement from the performer, whichever is later.

You can charge fees for the following performers:

• actors
• background artists
• dancers
• extras
• musicians
• singers
• other performers

Fees for entertainment workers (except models)

If there is a fee for promoting a worker, you can only charge this 7 days after the start of the contract.

In that 7-day period:

• the worker can cancel or withdraw from the contract without penalty
• the worker doesn鈥檛 have to make any payment under the contract
• the worker can say what information shouldn鈥檛 be included in the publication

This covers the following types of workers:

• composer
• writer
• artist
• director or producer
• production manager
• lighting cameraman, camera operator
• make up artist, clothes, hair or make up stylist
• film editor
• action arranger or co-ordinator, stunt arranger
• costume or production designer
• recording engineer
• property master
• film continuity person
• sound mixer
• photographer
• stage manager
• choreographer or theatre designer

Refunds for promotional services

Work-seekers have the right to a refund if the promotional information isn鈥檛 made available to potential hirers within 60 days of a fee being paid.

You can鈥檛 charge any upfront fees for finding work for photographic and fashion models. This includes putting information about the models in a publication or website.

However, after you鈥檝e found work for a model you can charge fees for:

• including information about them in a publication or website
• providing a service to find the model work (these fees must have been agreed with the model before you started looking for work for them)

You can charge fees for other services such as producing a photo or show reel. You have to put the terms and conditions for these in a separate document. You need to give this to the performer, model or entertainment worker before providing these services.

You can鈥檛 charge fees until 30 days after the start of the contract for these services.聽The performer, model or entertainment worker can cancel within these 30 days and won鈥檛 have to pay you anything.