This order provides for the coming into operation of provisions of the Statutory Sick Pay (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 on the following dates—

• 29th March 1991 for the provisions in Article 4, relating to small employers' relief, for the purpose only of authorising the making of regulations expressed to come into operation on 6th April 1991;

• 6th April 1991 for the provisions in—

• Article 3 relating to reduction in the amounts recoverable by employers who have paid statutory sick pay,

• Article 4, relating to small employers' relief, in so far as it is not already in operation,

• Article 5(2) and the Schedule relating to repeals.

The remaining provisions of that Order came into operation on 27th March 1991.