Section 13 Statutory sick pay in Northern Ireland: lower earnings limit etcI1I2

Part 11 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (statutory sick pay) is amended as follows.

In section 153 (rate of payment), for subsection (1) substitute—

“(1)

The weekly rate of statutory sick pay that an employer must pay to an employee is the lower of—

(a)

£118.75, and

(b)

80% of the employee’s normal weekly earnings.”

In Schedule 11 (circumstances in which periods of entitlement to statutory sick pay do not arise), in paragraph 2, omit paragraph (c) (lower earnings limit).