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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-national-health-service-employees-regulations-1991/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-national-health-service-employees-regulations-1991/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/589",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Sick Pay (National Health Service Employees) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-national-health-service-employees-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Treatment of more than one contract of employment as one contract",
  "text": "Where, in consequence of the establishment of one or more National Health Service Trusts under Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 or the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, a person’s contract of employment is treated by a scheme under that Part or Act as divided so as to constitute two or more contracts, ... he may elect for all those contracts to be treated as one contract for the purposes of Part I of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (1.4.13) by virtue of S.I. 2013/235, sch. 2, para. 15(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1990 (c.19)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/589/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:48:28.657639+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."
}