# The Statutory Sick Pay (General) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1987, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982.
Section 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.
Regulation 3 makes minor changes to the provisions governing statements required to be completed by employers in connection with payments of statutory sick pay.
Regulation 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/868/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-general-amendment-no2-regulations-1987/note
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