{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-act-1994/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-act-1994/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/2",
  "legislation_title": "Statutory Sick Pay Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-act-1994",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Restriction of employers’ right of recovery.",
  "text": "(1) In section 158(1)(a) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (recovery by employers of amounts paid by way of statutory sick pay), sub-paragraph (ii) (recovery of 80 per cent. of payments not qualifying for small employers’ relief) shall cease to have effect.\n(2) In consequence the following are repealed—\n(a) that provision and the word “and” preceding it, and\n(b) section 81(2) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992;\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(2) omitted (1.10.2006) by virtue of The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1031), regs. 1(1), 49(1), Sch. 8 para. 17(2) (with regs. 44-46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1992 c. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1992 c. 5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/2/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:26.948294+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."
}