{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-general-amendment-no2-regulations-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/868",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Sick Pay (General) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-general-amendment-no2-regulations-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982.\nSection 3 of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982, as amended by the Social Security Act 1986, section 86, Schedule 10, paragraph 77, prevents a woman entitled to either statutory maternity pay or a maternity allowance from also receiving statutory sick pay. Regulation 2 makes further provision preventing a woman who is not entitled to either benefit from receiving statutory sick pay for a period of 18 weeks at the time of confinement.\nRegulation 3 makes minor changes to the provisions governing statements required to be completed by employers in connection with payments of statutory sick pay.\nRegulation 4 provides that for the purposes of statutory sick pay the expression “earnings” includes payments of statutory maternity pay. It also revokes a provision which is now otiose.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/868/note",
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  "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."
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