{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992/section-155",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992/section-155.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/4",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992",
  "path": "section/155",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "155",
  "heading": "Limitations on entitlement.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) An employee shall not be entitled, as against any one employer, to an aggregate amount of statutory sick pay in respect of any one period of entitlement which exceeds his maximum entitlement.\n(3) The maximum entitlement as against any one employer is reached on the day on which the amount to which the employee has become entitled by way of statutory sick pay during the period of entitlement in question first reaches or passes the entitlement limit.\n(4) The entitlement limit is an amount equal to 28 times the weekly rate applicable in accordance with section 157 below.\n(5) Regulations may make provision for calculating the entitlement limit in any case where an employee’s entitlement to statutory sick pay is calculated by reference to different weekly rates in the same period of entitlement.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 155(1) omitted (6.4.2026) by virtue of Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), ss. 10(6), 159(3); S.I. 2026/373, reg. 2(a) (with regs. 3, 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 155(4) substituted (6.4.1995) by Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994 (c. 18), ss. 8(4), 16(3); S.I. 1994/2926, art. 2(3), Sch. Pt. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 155(3) excluded (11.4.2005) by The Guardians Allowance Up-rating Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/719), regs. 1(1), 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/4/section/155",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:29.915383+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."
}