{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-national-health-service-employees-regulations-1991/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-national-health-service-employees-regulations-1991/regulation-5.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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Treatment of two or more employers as one",
  "text": "The employer to be regarded for the purposes of statutory sick pay as the employee’s employer under the one contract where 2 or more contacts of service are treated as one in accordance with regulation 2 above, shall be–\n(a) in the case of a person whose contract of employment is treated by a scheme under Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 or the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 as divided—\n(i) the Health Authority ... from which the employee was transferred, in a case where any one of the employee’s contracts of service is with that Health Authority; ...\n(ii) the first NHS trust to which a contract of service was transferred in a case where none of the employee’s contracts of service are with the Health Authority ... from which he was transferred; ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5(a)(b) substituted (1.4.2000) by The Health Act 1999 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/694), art. 1, Sch. para. 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(a) omitted (1.4.13) by virtue of S.I. 2013/235, sch. 2, para. 15(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(a) omitted (1.4.13) by virtue of S.I. 2013/235, sch. 2, para. 15(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(a) omitted (1.4.13) by virtue of S.I. 2013/235, sch. 2, para. 15(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 5(b) and preceding word omitted (1.4.13) by virtue of S.I. 2013/235, sch. 2, para. 15(4)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/589/regulation/5",
    "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."
}