Explanatory note

These Regulations are either made under section 89(1) of the Social Security Act 1986 (“the 1986 Act”) or are consequential upon section 67(1) of that Act. Neither of those provisions have been in force for 12 months. Accordingly, the Regulations are exempt, by section 61(5) of the 1986 Act from reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee and are made without reference to that Committee.

Regulation 2 replaces the three rates of statutory sick pay with two rates.

Regulation 3 contains transitional provisions for those in receipt of the middle rate of statutory sick pay immediately before it was abolished and for those in receipt of the higher rate on 6th April 1987 whose normal weekly earnings were between £74.50 and £76.50 (inclusive).