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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-allowance-earnings-amendment-regulations-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/659",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Maternity Allowance) (Earnings) (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-allowance-earnings-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Security (Maternity Allowance) (Earnings) Regulations 2000 (“the principal Regulations”) which provides for payments which are, or are to be treated as, earnings for the purpose of determining entitlement to maternity allowance under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992.\nRegulation 2 substitutes regulation 5 of the principal Regulations which defines the specified period for the purposes of section 35A(4) and (5) of that Act.\nRegulation 3 substitutes regulation 6(1) of the principal Regulations which allow a woman’s average weekly amount of specified payments to be determined in respect of earnings made, or treated as made, in the specified period.\nThese Regulations do not impose a charge on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/659/note",
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  "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."
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