The Statutory Sick Pay (Coronavirus) (Funding of Employers' Liabilities) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2020 No. 513

PART 2 N.I. Eligibility for funding

When an employee's incapacity for work is related to coronavirus N.I.

5.—(1) An employee's incapacity for work is related to coronavirus if the employee is—

(a) incapable by reason of infection or contamination with coronavirus, or

(b) deemed, in accordance with regulation 2(1)(c) [F1 or (d)] of the Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1982 M1 , to be incapable by reason of coronavirus,

of doing work which the employee can reasonably be expected to do under the employee's contract of service, and references in these Regulations to an employee's period of incapacity for work related to coronavirus shall be construed in accordance with this regulation.

(2) The reference to regulation 2(1)(c) of the Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1982 in paragraph (1)(b) is a reference to the regulation which was in force on the first day of incapacity for work in question.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 5(1)(b) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Statutory Sick Pay (Coronavirus) (Funding of Employers' Liabilities) (Amendment) Regulations and the Statutory Sick Pay (Coronavirus) (Funding of Employers' Liabilities) (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1030), regs. 1(1), 4

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 5 in force at 26.5.2020, see reg. 1

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 1982/263. Paragraph (1)(c) was inserted by S.I. 2020/32 and amended by S.I. 2020/37 and 2020/54.