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Made under: Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982
Enforced by: HMRC
Status: Amended (in force with amendments)
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Employer6 Any Person1

Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.

Employer — also bound by 682 other Acts

The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations 2003 241 duties

Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 120 duties

TULRCA 1992 72 duties

Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 54 duties

Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (current NI employment law) 53 duties

Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

What it requires

Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.004 Contract of service ended for the purpose of avoiding liability for statutory sick pay Regulated

Do not terminate contracts to avoid paying Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)Employer

s.007 Time and manner of notification of incapacity for work Regulated

Set and communicate rules for employee sickness notificationEmployer

s.008 Manner in which statutory sick pay may not be paid Regulated

Pay Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) in cash, not in kindEmployer

s.009 Payments by the Secretary of State Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Secretary of State must pay Statutory Sick Pay in specific casesCrown / Minister / Government department

s.009 Time limits for paying statutory sick pay Regulated

Pay statutory sick pay within the required time limit after an entitlement decisionEmployer

s.013 Production of employer’s records Regulated

Produce Statutory Sick Pay records upon HMRC requestEmployer

s.014 Provision of information in connection with determination of questions Regulated

Provide information regarding Statutory Sick Pay to the Secretary of StateAny Person

s.015 Provision of information by employers to employees Regulated

Provide Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) information to employeesEmployer

23 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 Citation, commencement and interpretation

s.002 Persons deemed incapable of work

s.003 Period of entitlement ending or not arising

s.005 Qualifying days

s.006 Calculation of entitlement limit

s.010 Persons unable to act

s.011 Rounding to avoid fractional amounts

s.012 Days not to be treated as, or as parts of, periods of interruption of employment

s.013 Records to be maintained by employers

s.016 Meaning of “employee”

s.017 Meaning of “earnings”

s.018 Payments to be treated or not to be treated as contractual remuneration

s.019 Normal weekly earnings

s.020 Treatment of one or more employers as one

s.021 Treatment of more than one contract of service as one

s.022 Penalties

s.election to be treated as different employers not Election to be treated as different employers not to apply to recovery of statutory sick pay

s.insolvency of employer Insolvency of employer

s.isolation due to coronavirus ISOLATION DUE TO CORONAVIRUS

s.liability of the secretary of state for payments o Liability of the Secretary of State for payments of statutory sick pay

s.“linking periods of incapacity for work “Linking periods of incapacity for work

s.“maximum entitlement to statutory sick pay in a pe “Maximum entitlement to Statutory Sick Pay in a period of entitlement

s.“statements relating to the payment of statutory s “Statements relating to the payment of Statutory Sick Pay

Schedules

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18 other schedules

s.sch001 The person (P1) has tested positive for coronavirus and is...

s.sch001 Where P is staying at home pursuant to paragraph 5C,paragraphs...

s.sch001 The person (P2) lives with, or is in an extended...

s.sch001 Where S is staying at home pursuant to paragraph 5E,paragraphs...

s.sch001 The person— (a) has received a pre-surgery notification;

s.sch002 A person is, for the purposes of this Schedule, to...

s.sch002 The person— (a) is defined in public health guidance because...

s.sch002 A person to whom paragraph 2 applies is no longer...

s.sch002 Nothing in paragraph 3 prevents the person from again being...

s.sch002 For the purposes of this Schedule— “Chief Medical Officer” and...

s.schedule/paragraph/1 A person is isolating himself from other people in such...

s.schedule/paragraph/2 The person has symptoms of coronavirus, however mild, and is...

s.schedule/paragraph/3 The person lives with someone , or is in an...

s.schedule/paragraph/4 The person is staying at home under paragraph 3 and...

s.schedule/paragraph/5 Where the person is staying at home pursuant to paragraph...

s.schedule/paragraph/5a The person— (a) is defined in public health guidance as...

s.schedule/paragraph/5b The person— (a) has been advised by a relevant notification...

s.schedule/paragraph/6 In this Schedule— “Chief Medical Officer” means— the Chief Medical...

Help complying

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