{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-equality-age-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-equality-age-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/225",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Equality (Age) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-equality-age-consequential-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987",
  "text": "(1) The Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 17 (meaning of “employee”), for paragraph (1A), substitute—\n“(1A) Paragraph (1) shall have effect in relation to a woman who—\n(a) is under the age of 16; and\n(b) would or, as the case may be, would not have been treated as an employed earner by virtue of the Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1978 had she been over that age,\nas it has effect in relation to a woman who is or, as the case may be, is not so treated.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 30; relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2006 No. 261"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph (1A) of regulation 17 was inserted by paragraph 9(2)(b) of Schedule 7 to S.R. 2006 No. 261"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/225/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:41:01.326839+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}