Statutory Sick Pay (General) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1987
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1987/868 |
| Year | 1987 |
1987 No. 868
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
The Statutory Sick Pay (General) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1987
Made 12th May 1987
Laid before Parliament 14th May 1987
Coming into force 7th June 1987
The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3(4A)(b) and (5), 26(1) and (3) and 47 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to, the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 19821(a), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to it2(b), hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 7th June 1987.
(2) In these Regulations, “the General Regulations” means the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 19823(c).
Period of entitlement ending or not arising
2. In regulation 3 of the General Regulations, after paragraph (3) there shall be added the following paragraphs:
“4 Where a period of entitlement is current as between an employee and her employer and the employee —
(a) is or was pregnant,
(b) has reached or been confined before reaching the day immediately preceding the 6th week before the expected week of confinement, and
(c) is not by virtue of that pregnancy or confinement entitled to statutory maternity pay under Part V of the Social Security Act 19864(d) or to maternity allowance under section 22 of the Social Security Act 19755(e),
the period of entitlement shall end on that day, or if earlier, on the day she was confined.
5 Where an employee —
(a) has been confined or has reached the beginning of the 6th week before the expected week of her confinement, and
(b) is not either by virtue of or in expectation of that confinement entitled to statutory maternity pay under Part V of the Social Security Act 19866(a) or to maternity allowance under section 22 of the Social Security Act 19757(b),
a period of entitlement as between her and her employer shall not arise in relation to a period of incapacity for work where the first day in that period falls within 18 weeks of the beginning of the 6th week before her expected week of confinement, or if earlier, of the week in which she...
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