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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-general-amendment-transitional-regulations-1986/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/478",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Sick Pay (General) Amendment (Transitional) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-general-amendment-transitional-regulations-1986",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations are made in connection with the coming into force of section 18 of the Social Security Act 1985 and the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Amendment Regulations 1986 which are made thereunder. The Regulations are made under section 32(6) of that Act before the expiry of 6 months beginning with the commencement of that section (6th April 1986). Accordingly they are exempted by section 27(1)(c) and (6) 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 and are made without reference to that Committee.\nRegulation 1 relates to citation, commencement and interpretation.\nRegulation 2 provides that regulation 2 of the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Amendment Regulations 1986, which provide for periods of incapacity for work separated by not more than 8 weeks to be treated as a single period of incapacity for work, is to be disregarded where one of the periods of incapacity for work ended before 6th April 1986.\nRegulation 3 provides that regulation 7 of the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Amendment Regulations 1986, which provides that statements showing when an employee whose employment is about to end or had ended is or was entitled to statutory sick pay, is to be disregarded in respect of any period of entitlement which ended before 6th April 1986 or any days of incapacity (within a period of incapacity) which are followed by days on which the employee is capable of work and one at least of which falls before 6th April 1986.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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