151Limitations on entitlement
(1)Statutory sick pay shall not be payable for the first three qualifying days in any period of entitlement.
(2)An employee shall not be entitled, as against any one employer, to an aggregate amount of statutory sick pay in respect of any one period of entitlement which exceeds his maximum entitlement.
(3)The maximum entitlement as against any one employer is reached on the day on which the amount to which the employee has become entitled by way of statutory sick pay during the period of entitlement in question first reaches or passes the entitlement limit.
(4)The entitlement limit is an amount equal to 28 times the appropriate weekly rate set out in section 153 below.
(5)Regulations may make provision for calculating the entitlement limit in any case where an employee’s entitlement to statutory sick pay is calculated by reference to different weekly rates in the same period of entitlement.