The Statutory Sick Pay (Coronavirus) (Suspension of Waiting Days and General Amendment) (No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

Regulation 2(10)

SCHEDULE INSERTION OF SCHEDULE 2

Regulation 2(1)

“SCHEDULE 2 SHIELDING DUE TO CORONAVIRUS

1.   A person is, for the purposes of this Schedule, to be regarded as shielding himself where he is shielding himself in such a manner as to prevent infection or contamination with coronavirus pursuant to paragraph 2.

2.   The person is defined in public health guidance, because of an underlying health condition, as clinically extremely vulnerable and therefore at very high risk of severe illness from coronavirus and has been advised, by shielding notification sent to, or in respect of, that person in accordance with that guidance, to follow shielding measures for the period specified in the notification.

3.   A person to whom paragraph 2 applies is no longer to be regarded as shielding himself—

(a) immediately after the end of the period specified in the shielding notification;

(b) from the date specified in a further shielding notification sent to, or in respect of, the person, advising him that he need no longer shield himself from that date.

4.   Nothing in paragraph 3 prevents the person from again being regarded as shielding himself if a further shielding notification is sent to, or in respect of, the person advising the person that he needs to shield himself for the period specified in the notification.

5.   In this Schedule—

“public health guidance” has the same meaning as in paragraph 6 of Schedule 1;

“shielding notification” means a notification in writing sent to, or in respect of, a person by —

(a)

the Chief Medical Officer; or

(b)

the Regional Agency for Public Health and Social Well-being.”