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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-general-coronavirus-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2020/32",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Coronavirus Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-general-coronavirus-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2020",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1982 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2(persons deemed incapable of work) —\n(a) in paragraph (1), in the introductory words, omit “either”;\n(b) at the end of paragraph (1)(a), omit “or”;\n(c) after paragraph (1)(b) insert—\n“ ; or\n(c) he is—\n(i) isolating himself, from other people in such a manner as to prevent infection or contamination with coronavirus disease, in accordance with guidance published by the Regional Agency for Public Health and Social Well-being and effective on 12th March 2020; and\n(ii) by reason of that isolation is unable to work..”.\n(3) After paragraph (2) insert—\n“(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(c)—\n“coronavirus disease” means COVID-19.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.R. 1982 No. 263; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2006 No. 142 and S.R. 2012 No. 121"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (b) was substituted by regulation 2 of S.R. 2006 No. 142 and amended by regulation 11 of S.R. 2012 No. 121"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "Established under the Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 c.1 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 13.3.2020, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2020/32/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:44:38.931628+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."
}