{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-allowance-earnings-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/211",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Maternity Allowance) (Earnings) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-allowance-earnings-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Maternity Allowance) (Earnings) Regulations (Northern Ireland)",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security (Maternity Allowance) (Earnings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) In regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation) in paragraph (2) omit the definition of “certificate of small earnings exception”.\n(3) In regulation 3 (specified payments for self-employed earners)—\n(a) in paragraph (a) omit “and she does not hold a certificate of small earnings exception in respect of that week”; and\n(b) in paragraph (b) for “, where she holds a certificate of small earnings exception” substitute “if she could have paid but has not paid such a contribution”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2000 No. 104; relevant amending Regulation is S.R. 2002 No. 354"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph (a) was amended by regulation 6(2) of S.R. 2002 No. 354"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/211/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:01:48.609186+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."
}