Part 1: Main Provisions Section 43: Statutory sick pay: power to disapply waiting period limitation: Northern Ireland
This section enables the Secretary of State to make regulations which can disapply section 151(1) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 in relation to an employee whose incapacity for work is related to COVID-19. This means that the regulations can be used to temporarily suspend waiting days for those employees who are absent from work due to COVID-19.
	The territorial extent and application of this section is Northern Ireland only.