Regulation 3 Amendment of the Recoupment Regulations

Regulation 2 of the Recoupment Regulations (relevant benefits) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

In paragraph (1)(I) after the words “statutory sick pay,” there shall be inserted the words “subject to paragraph (3) below,”

After paragraph (2) there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(3)

The amount of statutory sick pay for the purposes of section 22 of the 1989 Act (recovery of sums equivalent to benefit from compensation payments) is, in so far as it relates to any liability an employer may have to make a payment of statutory sick pay to an employee of his in respect of a day of incapacity for work falling on or after 6th April 1991, 80 per cent. of the payment of statutory sick pay which the employer is liable to make.”