# The Social Security Maternity Benefits and Statutory Sick Pay (Amendment) Regulations 1994, Regulation 7: Amendment of regulation 3 of the Maternity Allowance Regulations


(1) Regulation 3 of the Maternity Allowance Regulations (modification of the maternity allowance period) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) After paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph–
“(2A) In relation to a woman who–
(a) is not entitled to maternity allowance at the 11th week before the expected week of confinement; and
(b) subsequently becomes entitled to maternity allowance before being confined; and
(c) has stopped work
the maternity allowance period shall be a period of 18 weeks commencing with the week following that in which she stopped work.”.
(3) In paragraph (4)(c) for head (ii) there shall be substituted the following head–
“(ii) where she is absent from work wholly or partly due to pregnancy or confinement, at the end of the 18th week following the week in which she was absent from work,”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1367/regulation/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-benefits-and-statutory-sick-pay-amendment-regulations-1994/regulation-7
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