{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-medical-evidence-and-statutory-maternity-pay-medical-evidence-amendment-regulations-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2931",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Medical Evidence) and Statutory Maternity Pay (Medical Evidence) (Amendment) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-medical-evidence-and-statutory-maternity-pay-medical-evidence-amendment-regulations-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976 and the Statutory Maternity Pay (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1987 which are concerned with the evidence which is to be provided in connection with claims for, respectively, maternity allowance and statutory maternity pay.\nRegulation 1 provides for the citation and commencement of the Regulations.\nRegulation 2 amends the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976. It provides that a maternity certificate from a doctor or a registered midwife is to be given not more than 20 weeks before the week the baby is expected and substitutes a reference to a Health Authority.\nRegulation 3 amends the Statutory Maternity Pay (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1987. It provides that a maternity certificate from a doctor or a registered midwife is to be given not more than 20 weeks before the week the baby is expected and substitutes a reference to a Health Authority.\nThese Regulations do not impose any costs on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2931/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:29:39.467649+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."
}