{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1968",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-claims-and-payments-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Special provisions where it is certified that a woman is expected to be confined or where she has been confined",
  "text": "(1) Where in a certificate issued or having effect as issued under the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976 it has been certified that it is to be expected that a woman will be confined, and she makes a claim for maternity allowance in expectation of that confinement any such claim may, unless the Secretary of State otherwise directs, be treated as a claim for incapacity benefit, severe disablement allowance or an employment and support allowance, made in respect of any days in the period beginning with either–\n(a) the beginning of the 6th week before the expected week of confinement; or\n(b) the actual date of confinement,\nwhichever is the earlier, and ending in either case on the 14th day after the actual date of confinement.\n(2) Where, in a certificate issued under the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976 it has been certified that a woman has been confined and she claims maternity allowance within three months of that date, her claim may be treated in the alternative or in addition as a claim for incapacity benefit, severe disablement allowance or an employment and support allowance, for the period beginning with the date of her confinement and ending 14 days after that date.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(1) substituted (13.4.1995) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2943), regs. 1(1), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(1) substituted (27.7.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(a), 17(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(2) substituted (7.4.1997) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/793), regs. 1(1)(b), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(2) substituted (13.4.1995) by The Social Security (Claims and Payments) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2943), regs. 1(1), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 11(2) substituted (27.7.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(a), 17(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1976/615; the relevant amending instruments are S.I.s 1982/699, 1984/1303 and 1987/409."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1968/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:17:50.477745+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."
}