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Illness benefit — amendments
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4. (1) Section 40 of the Principal Act is amended—
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(a) in subsection (2), by substituting “6” for “3”,
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(b) by inserting the following subsection after subsection (2):
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“(2A) Subsection (2) shall not apply to a person who had an entitlement to jobseeker’s benefit or jobseeker’s allowance for any day or days in the period of 14 consecutive days ending on the day before the first day of incapacity for work.”,
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and
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(c) in subsection (3)—
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(i) by deleting the following in paragraph (d):
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“and a period of incapacity for work is deemed to include any day or days of unemployment in the period of 3 consecutive days before the first day of incapacity for work”,
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and
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(ii) in paragraph (f), by substituting “other than for the purposes of subsection (2A), Sunday” for “Sunday”.
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(2) The amendments to section 40 of the Principal Act effected by subsection (1) come into operation on 6 January 2014 as respects a period of incapacity for work, within the meaning of section 40 of the Principal Act, the first day of which occurs on or after 6 January 2014.
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