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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 and shall come into operation on 27th October 2008.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
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(1) The Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1982 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) Omit regulations 3A and 15A (maximum entitlement to statutory sick pay in a period of entitlement and statements relating to the payment of statutory sick pay).
(3) In regulation 15 (provision of information by employers to employees)—
(a) for paragraph (3)(a) substitute—“
(a) the information mentioned in paragraph (1) is a statement informing the employee of—
(i) the reason why the period of entitlement ended, and
(ii) the date of the last day in respect of which the employer is or was liable to make a payment of statutory sick pay to him; and”;
(b) for paragraph (4)(a) substitute—“
(a) the information mentioned in paragraph (1) is a statement informing the employee of—
(i) the reason why the period of entitlement is expected to end, and
(ii) the date of the last day in respect of which the employer is or was expected to be liable to make a payment of statutory sick pay to him; and”.
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Regulations 4 and 8 of the Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986, regulation 3 of the Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 and regulation 3(6) of the Social Security (Contributions), Statutory Maternity Pay and Statutory Sick Pay (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 are revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 27th August 2008
(L.S.)B McGahan
A senior officer of the Department for Social Development
