{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3232",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-scotland-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Insertion of new regulation 30B of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "After regulation 30A of the principal Regulations (temporary salary) there is inserted the following regulation:–\n“Pay during maternity leave\n30B (1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a female constable of a police force who satisfies the conditions in paragraph (2) is entitled to be paid as respects the first three months of any period or periods of maternity leave in any one maternity period (as defined by regulation 28ZA) taken in accordance with that regulation, but is not entitled to be paid thereafter.\n(2) The conditions referred to in paragraph (1) are that–\n(a) at the beginning of the week in which the expected date of birth (as defined by regulation 28ZA(1)) occurs, the female constable of a police force will have served continuously for a period of not less than sixty-three weeks in that or any other police force; and\n(b) on the date (“the relevant date”) fifteen weeks before the expected date of birth (as so defined) she either–\n(i) remains pregnant; or\n(ii) has given birth prematurely to a baby who is alive on the relevant date.\n(3) In this regulation “week” means a period of seven days beginning with Sunday.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3232/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:28:45.706460+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."
}