Entitlement to sickness benefit

(1) Sickness benefit shall be payable to an insured person who is rendered incapable of work as a result of a specific disease or bodily or mental disablement and satisfies the prescribed conditions: Provided that an insured person shall be treated as incapable of work for any day during which he is required to abstain from work because he is under observation by reason of being a carrier, or his having been in contact with a case of infectious (2) An insured person shall not be entitled to sickness benefit in respect of any day on which he engages in remunerative work.