{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992/section-30D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992/section-30D.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/30D",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30D",
  "heading": "Incapacity benefit: construction of references to days of entitlement.",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions have effect in calculating for the purposes of—\n(a) section 30A(4) above (length of entitlement to short-term incapacity benefit),\n(b) section 30B(2) above (period after which short-term incapacity benefit is payable at higher rate),\n(c) section 30B(4) above (period after which incapacity benefit is payable at long-term rate in case of terminal illness), and\n(d) section 30B(5) above (construction of references to short-term incapacity benefit at the higher rate),\nthe number of days for which a person has been entitled to short-term incapacity benefit.\n(2) There shall be included—\n(a) the first three days of the period of incapacity for work, and\n(b) in the case of a woman, any days for which she was entitled to maternity allowance.\n(3) There shall also be included such days as may be prescribed in respect of which a person was entitled to statutory sick pay, and on the first of which he satisfied the contribution conditions for short-term incapacity benefit.\n(4) There shall be excluded any days in respect of which a person was disqualified for receiving incapacity benefit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 30C-30E inserted (18.11.1994 for specified purposes, 13.4.1995 in so far as not already in force) by Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994 (c. 18), ss. 3(1), 16(3); S.I. 1994/2926, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. 2 (with The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) (Transitional) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/310))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 30D modified (6.4.2003) by The Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (Modifications for Her Majestys Forces and Incapacity Benefit) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/737), regs. 1, 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/4/section/30D",
    "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."
}