Welfare Reform Act 2009 (c. 24)

Part 1 U.K. Social security

Revised system of working-age benefits E+W+S

Prospective

6 Statutory sick pay and employment and support allowance E+W+S

In section 20 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (relationship of employment and support allowance with statutory sick pay and other statutory payments), for subsection (1) substitute—

“(1) A person—

(a) is not entitled to a contributory allowance in respect of a day, and

(b) except as regulations may provide, is not entitled to an income-related allowance in respect of a day,

if, for the purposes of statutory sick pay, that day is a day of incapacity for work in relation to a contract of service and falls within a period of entitlement (whether or not it is a qualifying day).”