{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-general-amendment-regulations-1986/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-general-amendment-regulations-1986/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/477",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Sick Pay (General) Amendment Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-general-amendment-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Linking periods of incapacity for work",
  "text": "The following regulation shall be inserted after regulation 2 of the principal regulations:—\n““Linking periods of incapacity for work\n2A In subsection (3) of section 2 of the 1982 Act (linking periods of incapacity for work), 8 weeks shall be substituted for 2 weeks.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "excluded",
      "affecting": "uksi/1986/478",
      "affecting_title": "The Statutory Sick Pay (General) Amendment (Transitional) Regulations 1986"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/477/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:52:00.611509+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."
}