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Health and Social Security Act 1984
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8The following section shall be inserted after section 23 of that Act—
“23ADeductions from statutory sick pay.
(1)It is hereby declared for the avoidance of doubt that an agreement between an employer and an employee authorising any deductions from any statutory sick pay which the employer is liable to pay the employee in respect of any period shall not be void by reason only of section 1(2)(a) of this Act if the employer—
(a)is authorised by that or another agreement to make the same deductions from any contractual remuneration which he is liable to pay in respect of the same period ; or
(b)would be so authorised if he were liable to pay contractual remuneration in respect of that period.
(2)The [1896 c. 44.] Truck Act 1896 shall apply in relation to an agreement between an employer and a workman (within the meaning of that Act) for the deduction of any amount from statutory sick pay as it applies to a contract for any deduction from the sum contracted to be paid by an employer to a workman ; and, accordingly, any reference in that Act to such a contract shall include a reference to such an agreement and any reference to the sum contracted to be paid shall include a reference to a payment of statutory sick pay.”.
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