Statutory Sick Pay (National Health Service Employees) Regulations 1991
| Year | 1991 |
1991 No. 589
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
The Statutory Sick Pay (National Health Service Employees) Regulations 1991
Made 11th March 1991
Laid before Parliament 11th March 1991
Coming into force 1st April 1991
The Secretary of State for Social Security in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 26(1) and (5A), 45(1) and 47 of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 19821and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, by this instrument, which contains only regulations consequential upon paragraph 16 of Schedule 6 to the Social Security Act 19902, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Statutory Sick Pay (National Health Service Employees) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.
(2) In these Regulations, a “health authority” shall in relation to England and Wales have the same meaning it has in section 128(1) of the National Health Service Act 19773, and in relation to Scotland mean the health board within the meaning of section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 19784.
Treatment of more than one contract of employment as one contract
2. Where, in consequence of the establishment of one or more National Health Service Trusts under Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 19905or the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, a person’s contract of employment is treated by a scheme under that Part or Act as divided so as to constitute two or more contracts, he may elect for all those contracts to be treated as one contract for the purposes of Part I of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982.
Notification of election
3. A person who makes an election under regulation 2 above shall give written notification of that election to each of his employers under the two or more contracts of service mentioned in that regulation, before the end of the fourth day of incapacity for work in the period of incapacity for work in relation to a contract of service with the employer with whom this day first occurs.
Provision of information by employees
4. A person who makes an election under regulation 2 above shall, as soon as is reasonably practicable after giving notice of that election, provide each of his employers under the two or more contracts of service mentioned in that regulation with the following information–
(a) the name and address of each of his employers; and
(b) the date...
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