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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-general-amendment-regulations-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3042",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Sick Pay (General) Amendment Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-general-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982.\nRegulation 2 amends regulation 13 of the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982 (which relates to records to be maintained by employers) by inserting a new paragraph (1A) which provides that any payment, or payments, of contractual remuneration which equal or exceed the amount of statutory sick pay payable in respect of a day of incapacity, shall not be regarded as a payment of statutory sick pay for the purpose of the record keeping requirements of that regulation only.\nThese Regulations do not impose any costs on business.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3042/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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