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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/356",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1982 (“the principal Regulations”).\nRegulation 2(2) omits regulations 3A and 15A of the principal Regulations which provide for an employer to determine whether an employee’s maximum entitlement to statutory sick pay in relation to certain days falling within previous periods of entitlement has been reached and to supply statements concerning an employee’s statutory sick pay entitlement where an employee leaves his employment with his employer.\nRegulation 2(3) amends regulation 15 of the principal Regulations which makes provision about the information that is to be provided by employers to employees.\nRegulation 3 makes consequential revocations.\nThese Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.\nThese Regulations reduce the costs on business, charities and the voluntary sector. An assessment of the cost to business of these Regulations is detailed in a Regulatory Impact Assessment, copies of which have been laid in the Business Office and the Library of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Copies of the Assessment are available from the Department for Social Development, Social Security Policy and Legislation Division, Level 1, James House, 2-4 Cromac Avenue, Gasworks Business Park, Ormeau Road, Belfast, BT7 2JA.",
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