
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Amendment Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 6th April 1997.
2 
In regulation 13 of the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982 (records to be maintained by employers) after paragraph (1), insert–“
(1A) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) only, the employer is not to be regarded as having made a payment of statutory sick pay where, in respect of any day recorded under paragraph (1)(a), the employee is entitled to receive, and does in fact receive, a payment or payments by way of contractual remuneration from his employer which, in aggregate, equal or exceed the amount of statutory sick pay payable in respect of that day.”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Oliver Heald
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security
4th December 1996