The Statutory Sick Pay (Maintenance of Records) (Revocation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2014 No. 65

Statutory Sick Pay

The Statutory Sick Pay (Maintenance of Records) (Revocation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014

Made

5th March 2014

Coming into operation

6th April 2014

The Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 122(4) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(1) and now vested in it(2).

Regulation 2 in so far as concurrence is required, is made with the concurrence of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs(3).

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Statutory Sick Pay (Maintenance of Records) (Revocation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2014.

Revocation

2.  Regulation 13 of the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1982(4) (records to be maintained by employers) is revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 28th February 2014

(L.S.)

Anne McCleary

A senior officer of the Department for Social Development

The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs hereby concur, in so far as concurrence is required

(L.S.)

Ruth Owen

Simon Bowles

Two of the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs

4th March 2014

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1982 (“the 1982 Regulations”).

Regulation 2 of these Regulations revokes regulation 13 of the 1982 Regulations which provide for records concerning payments of Statutory Sick Pay to be retained by employers.

These Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.

An assessment of the impact of these Regulations on businesses, charities and the voluntary sector has been made. Copies of that assessment may be obtained from the Department for Social Development, Social Security Policy and Legislation Division, Level 1, James House, 2 Cromac Avenue, Gasworks Business Park, Ormeau Road, Belfast, BT7 2JA or from the Departments website: http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/ssa/ssani-publications/ssani-reports-plans.htm.

(1)

1992 (c.8); section 122(4) was amended by paragraph 29 of Schedule 1 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671)

(2)

See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481

(3)

By virtue of section 50(1) of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11) references to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue in enactments are to be taken as references to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs

(4)

S.R. 1982 No. 263. Regulation 13 was amended by regulation 6 of S.R. 1986 No. 83, regulation 3(4)(a) of S.R. 1996 No. 108 and by regulation 2 of S.R. 1996 No. 569