{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-northern-ireland-act-1992/section-151",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/7",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-northern-ireland-act-1992",
  "path": "section/151",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "151",
  "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 153 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": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 151(1) omitted (6.4.2026) by virtue of Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), ss. 12(6), 159(3); S.I. 2026/373, reg. 2(c) (with regs. 3, 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 151(4) substituted (6.4.1995) by S.I. 1994/1898 (N.I. 12), art. 10(4); S.R. 1994/450, art. 2, Sch. Pt. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 151(1) disapplied (temp.) (28.3.2020) by The Statutory Sick Pay (Coronavirus) (Suspension of Waiting Days and General Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/54), regs. 1, 2 (made under Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7), s. 43, which section was extended by S.I. 2022/362, reg. 3 and expired (25.9.2022) by virtue of Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7), s. 89 with s saving in S.I. 2022/987, regs. 1(1), 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/7/section/151",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:23.179265+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."
}