The Statutory Sick Pay (National Health Service Employees) Regulations 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/589
• Sections: 6

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Statutory Sick Pay (National Health Service Employees) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.

(2) In these Regulations, a “health authority” shall in relation to Wales have the same meaning it has in section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977 , and in relation to Scotland mean the health board within the meaning of section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 .

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(5) In these Regulations, a reference to “NHS trust” shall be construed to include a reference to an NHS foundation trust within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 where the application for authorisation to become an NHS foundation trust was made by an NHS trust.”

Section 2 Treatment of more than one contract of employment as one contract

Where, in consequence of the establishment of one or more National Health Service Trusts under Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 or the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, a person’s contract of employment is treated by a scheme under that Part or Act as divided so as to constitute two or more contracts, ... he may elect for all those contracts to be treated as one contract for the purposes of Part I of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982.

Section 3 Notification of election

A person who makes an election under regulation 2 above shall give written notification of that election to each of his employers under the two or more contracts of service mentioned in that regulation, before the end of the fourth day of incapacity for work in the period of incapacity for work in relation to a contract of service with the employer with whom this day first occurs.

Section 4 Provision of information by employees

A person who makes an election under regulation 2 above shall, as soon as is reasonably practicable after giving notice of that election, provide each of his employers under the two or more contracts of service mentioned in that regulation with the following information–

(a) the name and address of each of his employers; and

(b) the date his employment with each of those employers commenced; and

(c) details of his earnings during the relevant period and for this purpose “earnings” and “relevant period” have the same meanings as they have for the purposes of section 26(2) of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 .

Section 5 Treatment of two or more employers as one

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–

(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 ... from which the employee was transferred, in a case where any one of the employee’s contracts of service is with that Health Authority; ...

(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 ... from which he was transferred; ...

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Section 6 Time for which an election is to have effect

An election made under regulation 2 shall lapse at the end of the period of incapacity for work in relation to the contract of service with the employer mentioned in regulation 5.