Legislation – The Statutory Sick Pay (Coronavirus) (Funding of Employers’ Liabilities) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2020

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Introduction

PART 1
Introduction

1 Citation and commencement

2 Interpretation

PART 2
Eligibility for funding

3 Funding of eligible employers’ liabilities by HMRC

4 Meaning of eligible employer

5 When an employee’s incapacity for work is related to coronavirus

PART 3
Claims

6 Making a claim

7 Time limit for making a claim

PART 4
Payments, corrections and overpayments

8 Payments

9 Correcting a claim when the amount has been mistakenly overstated

10 Correcting a claim when the amount has been mistakenly understated

11 Recovery of overpayments

PART 5
Records and information requests

12 Preservation of records

13 Provision of information and records

Signature

Explanatory note

2020 No. 513
Social Security

The Statutory Sick Pay (Coronavirus) (Funding of Employers’ Liabilities) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2020

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 155B and 171(3), (4), (5A) and (10) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 19921.
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1992 c. 7. By virtue of section 42(1) of the Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7), the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (“the 1992 Act”) has effect as if a new section 155B were inserted after section 155A. Section 155B(7) allows these Regulations to have retrospective effect in relation to a day of incapacity for work that falls on or after 13th March 2020. By virtue of section 44(b) of the Coronavirus Act 2020, the 1992 Act has effect as if a new section 171(5A) were inserted after section 171(5). Section 171(10) was substituted by paragraph 28(3) of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999/671.