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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-medical-evidence-amendment-regulations-1987/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-medical-evidence-amendment-regulations-1987/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/409",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Medical Evidence) Amendment Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-medical-evidence-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations substitute new provisions in the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976 (“the Medical Evidence Regulations”).\nRegulation 2 substitutes a definition of “registered midwife” for “certified midwife” in the Medical Evidence Regulations.\nRegulation 3 replaces the reference to a certificate in regulation 2(3) of the Medical Evidence Regulations with a reference to a maternity certificate.\nRegulation 4 prescribes the form on which evidence of pregnancy and the expected date of confinement is to be provided by a woman who claims maternity allowance under section 22 of the Social Security Act 1975.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/409/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:30:06.278368+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."
}