{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-mariners-airmen-and-persons-abroad-regulations-1982/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-mariners-airmen-and-persons-abroad-regulations-1982/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1982/1349",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Sick Pay (Mariners, Airmen and Persons Abroad) Regulations 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-mariners-airmen-and-persons-abroad-regulations-1982",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Airmen—meaning of “employee”",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 9 and to the following provisions of this regulation, where an airman is employed as such on board any aircraft, and the employer of that airman or the person paying the airman his earnings in respect of the employment (whether or not the person making the payment is acting as agent for the employer) or the person under whose directions the terms of the airman's employment and the amount of the earnings to be paid in respect thereof are determined has—\n(a) in the case of the aircraft being a British aircraft, a place of business in Great Britain, or\n(b) in any other case, his principal place of business in Great Britain,\nthen, notwithstanding that he may not be employed in Great Britain, he shall be treated as an employee for the purposes of Part I.\n(2) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (3), an airman shall not be treated as an employee for those purposes if he is not domiciled, and has no place of residence, in Great Britain.\n(3) The provisions of paragraph (2) shall have effect subject to any Order in Council giving effect to any reciprocal agreement made under section 143 of the Social Security Act 1975 (reciprocity with other countries).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/1349/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:14:16.687890+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."
}