(1) An employer shall pay an employee a prescribed daily rate of payment (in this Act referred to as "statutory sick leave payment") in respect of each statutory sick leave day.

(2) The Minister may make regulations, having regard to the matters specified in paragraphs (a) to (g) of section 6(1), for the purpose of prescribing the daily rate of statutory sick leave payment under subsection (1) which may -

(a) specify the percentage rate of an employee's pay, up to a maximum daily amount, at which statutory sick leave payment will be paid,

(b) subject to the maximum daily amount specified in accordance with paragraph (a), specify an allowance in respect of board and lodgings, board only or lodgings only in a case in which such board or lodgings constitute part of the employee's remuneration calculated at the prescribed rate, or