# The Statutory Sick Pay (General) Amendment Regulations 1986, Note: Explanatory note


These Regulations contain provisions relating to statutory sick pay (“SSP”) and amend the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982 (“the principal regulations”). They are all either made under provisions inserted in the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 or are consequential upon section 18 of the Social Security Act 1985 (“the 1985 Act”). As they are made earlier than six months from the first day appointed for the coming into force of section 18 (6th April 1986), they are exempted by section 27(8)(d) of the 1985 Act from the requirement under section 10(1) of the Social Security Act 1980 to refer proposals to the Social Security Advisory Committee.
Regulation 1 of the Regulations refers to their citation, commencement and interpretation.
Regulation 2 increases from 2 to 8 weeks the maximum period by which two periods of incapacity for work may be separated and yet link to form a single period of incapacity for work.
Regulation 3 provides for the ending at 3 years of a period of entitlement which would otherwise run for more than 3 years.
Regulation 4 provides that days of entitlement to SSP with a previous employer may count towards determining whether an employee has reached his maximum entitlement to SSP in a period of entitlement as between him and an employer of his.
Regulation 5 requires an employer to retain records of any days of entitlement to SSP which an employee of his may have had while working for him or for a previous employer.
Regulation 6 makes provision as to the information which employers are required to provide to their employees, and the time within which it is to be provided.
Regulation 7 requires an employer to provide an employee who is leaving or has left his employment and to whom he is or was liable to make a payment of SSP for any day falling within the last 8 weeks of that employment with a statement showing details of his entitlement to SSP in the last period of entitlement.
Regulation 8 provides a penalty for failure to comply with the requirement, set out in regulation 7, to provide a statement.
Regulation 9 makes changes to regulation 6 of the principal regulations which are consequential upon section 18 of the 1985 Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/477/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-general-amendment-regulations-1986/note
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