{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-allowance-earnings-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-allowance-earnings-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/104",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Maternity Allowance) (Earnings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-allowance-earnings-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Specified payments for self-employed earners",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 35A(4)(b) of the Contributions and Benefits Act, where a woman is a self-employed earner in any week falling within the test period, the payments treated as made to her or for her benefit shall be—\n(a) a payment equal to an amount 90 per cent. of which is equal to the weekly rate prescribed under section 162(1)(b) of the Contributions and Benefits Act that is in force on the last day of that week where she has paid a Class 2 contribution ...; or\n(b) a payment equal to the maternity allowance threshold in force on the last day of that week if she could have paid but has not paid such a contribution in respect of that week.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(a) substituted (24.11.2002) by The Social Security, Statutory Maternity Pay and Statutory Sick Pay (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 (S.R. 2002/354), regs. 1(1)(a), 6(2) (with regs. 1(2), 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(a) omitted (6.4.2015) by virtue of The Social Security (Maternity Allowance) (Earnings) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/211), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(b) substituted (6.4.2015) by The Social Security (Maternity Allowance) (Earnings) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/211), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 2.4.2000, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/104/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:16:09.388911+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."
}