
1 
These regulations may be cited as the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Amendment Regulations 1985 and shall come into operation on 5th March 1985.
2 

(1) Regulation 5 of the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982 (qualifying days) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In paragraph (2), after the words “or were qualifying days” there shall be inserted the words “or where in any week the only day or days are or were such as are referred to in paragraph (3)”.
(3) After paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—“

(3) No effect shall be given to any agreement between an employee and his employer to treat as qualifying days—
(a) any day where the day is identified, whether expressly or otherwise, by reference to that or another day being a day of incapacity for work in relation to the employee's contract of service with an employer;
(b) any day identified, whether expressly or otherwise, by reference to a period of entitlement or to a period of incapacity for work.
”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Services
Tony Newton
Minister of State
Department of Health and Social Security
3rd February 1985