# The Statutory Sick Pay (National Health Service Employees) Regulations 1991, Regulation 5: Treatment of two or more employers as one


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–
(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—
(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; ...
(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; ...
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/589/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-sick-pay-national-health-service-employees-regulations-1991/regulation-5
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