Regulation 3 Amendment of the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982

The Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982^f1 shall be amended by inserting after regulation 21 the following regulation:

“Election to be treated as different employers not to apply to recovery of statutory sick pay

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(1)

Paragraph (2) below applies for the purposes of section 159A of the Contributions and Benefits Act (power to provide for recovery by employers of sums paid by way of statutory sick pay) and of any order made under that section^f2.

(2)

Where an employer has made 2 or more elections under regulation 3 of the Income Tax (Employments) Regulations 1993^f3 to be treated as a different employer in respect of each of the groups of employees specified in the election, the different employers covered by each of those elections shall be treated as one employer.”.