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(1) This order may be cited as the Statutory Sick Pay (1991 Order) (Commencement) Order (Northern Ireland) 1991.
(2) In this order “the Order” means the Statutory Sick Pay (Northern Ireland) Order 1991, and any reference to a numbered Article or the Schedule is to the Article bearing that number in, or the Schedule to, the Order.
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The day appointed for the coming into operation of—
(a) Article 4 (small employers' relief) for the purpose only of authorising the making of regulations which are expressed to come into operation on 6th April 1991, is 29th March 1991;
(b) Article 3 (reduction in the amounts recoverable by employers who have paid statutory sick pay), Article 4, in so far as it is not already in operation, and Article 5(2) and the Schedule (repeals), is 6th April 1991.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services on
A. N. Burns
Assistant Secretary
28th March 1991.