# The Social Security Maternity Benefits and Statutory Sick Pay (Amendment) Regulations 1994, Regulation 6: Amendment of regulation 23 of the Statutory Maternity Pay Regulations


(1) Regulation 23 of the Statutory Maternity Pay Regulations (notice of absence from work) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In paragraph (2) for the words “section 46(4) of the 1986 Act” there shall be substituted “section 164(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act”.
(3) For paragraphs (4) and (5) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs–
“(4) Subject to paragraph (5), section 164(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act shall not apply to a woman who leaves her employment with the person who will be liable to pay her statutory maternity pay after the beginning of the 15th week before the expected week of confinement for a reason wholly unconnected with her pregnancy.
(5) A woman who is exempted from section 164(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act by paragraph (4) but who is confined before the 11th week before the expected week of confinement shall only be entitled to statutory maternity pay if she gives the person who will be liable to pay it notice specifying the date she was confined.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1367/regulation/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-benefits-and-statutory-sick-pay-amendment-regulations-1994/regulation-6
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