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The Statutory Sick Pay (National Health Service Employees) Regulations 1991
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- regs.2 5 amended by S.I. 2000/694 art.3 Sch. Pt.II para.2(3)
Treatment of two or more employers as oneE+W+S
5. The employer to be regarded for the purposes of statutory sick pay as the employee’s employer under the one contract where 2 or more contacts of service are treated as one in accordance with regulation 2 above, shall be–
[F1(a)in the case of a person whose contract of employment is treated by a scheme under Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 or the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 as divided—
(i) the Health Authority F2 ... from which the employee was transferred, in a case where any one of the employee’s contracts of service is with that Health Authority; F3 ...
(ii) the first NHS trust to which a contract of service was transferred in a case where none of the employee’s contracts of service are with the Health Authority F4 ... from which he was transferred; ]F5...
( b ). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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F1Reg. 5(a)(b) substituted (1.4.2000) by The Health Act 1999 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/694), art. 1, Sch. para. 2(4)
F2Words in reg. 5(a) omitted (1.4.13) by virtue of S.I. 2013/235, sch. 2, para. 15(4)(a)
F3Words in reg. 5(a) omitted (1.4.13) by virtue of S.I. 2013/235, sch. 2, para. 15(4)(a)
F4Words in reg. 5(a) omitted (1.4.13) by virtue of S.I. 2013/235, sch. 2, para. 15(4)(a)
F5Reg. 5(b) and preceding word omitted (1.4.13) by virtue of S.I. 2013/235, sch. 2, para. 15(4)(b)
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