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not that i'm aware of. intriguing question. please pardon the following historical digression, make of it what you will.
in the civil service, on joining, we used to sign something called 'estains' which meant we could not claim sickness benefits while we received full pay - same arrangements you describe, but a staff rule covered by employment contract presumably. in addition, i expect there was a regulation preventing payment of SB to people who had signed estains (also members of HM forces) - i say this because the periods a person was in the civil service or HMF were notified to Newcastle and noted on their NI records - and those notes were added to the shuttlecard returned to the local office with the rel. year contribution details.
other than these excluded persons, there was nothing to prevent a person claiming SB and receiving sickpay from an employer or private insurance. i recall that there was a commissioner's decision on whether a person had good cause for late claim, when they delayed claiming because they had not realised they could claim and receive sick pay from work. (iirc it was not good cause : ) )
thinking back, we were actually better off when we had time off sick, because sick pay wasn't taxed in those days... : )
but the contributory benefit principle was intentded to be simple (efficient and economic to administer)- if you (or husband where appropriate) had paid the contributions, and met the qualifying condition for the benefit - sickness, widowhood, retirement, death, you were entitled. it didn't matter if you were a millionaire. ('Customers' of National Insurance Offices were referred to as IPs - insured persons.)
writing that has made me feel about a hundred years old...!!
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