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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025-statutory-sick-pay-consequential-amendments-regulations-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/210",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Rights Act 2025 (Statutory Sick Pay) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025-statutory-sick-pay-consequential-amendments-regulations-2026",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982 (S.I. 1982/894) (“the 1982 Regulations”) and the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1982 (S.R. 1982 No. 263) (“the 1982 Regulations (NI)”), in consequence of sections 10 to 13 of the Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36) (“the 2025 Act”).\nRegulation 2 amends the 1982 Regulations to remove a reference to the fourth day of a period of incapacity for work, and to omit the explanation of how the critical date is calculated when an employee earned below the lower earnings limit, to reflect the removal of waiting periods and the lower earnings limit under the 2025 Act. Regulation 3 makes the same amendments to the 1982 Regulations (NI).\nAn impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen. An impact assessment was produced for the 2025 Act and is available from the House of Commons and House of Lords Libraries. Copies of the impact assessment on the statutory sick pay measures in the 2025 Act are available from the Department for Work and Pensions at Caxton House, Tothill Street, London, SW1H 9NA, or online: www.gov.uk/guidance/employment-rights-bill-impact-assessments.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/210/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:05:12.747116+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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