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The Social Security (Contribution Conditions for Unemployment and Sickness Benefit) Transitional Regulations 1989

Employment terms and conditions

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2015-02-09

SOCIAL SECURITY

These Regulations make savings provisions in connection with the commencement on 2nd October 1988 of section 6 of the Social Security Act 1988 which relates to contribution conditions for unemployment and sickness benefit. Where a person has a day of unemployment or incapacity for work and that day falls within a period of interruption of employment which began before 1st January 1978, the contribution conditions for unemployment benefit and sickness benefit in his case are those which applied prior to the changes introduced by section 6.