{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-medical-evidence-regulations-1976/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-medical-evidence-regulations-1976/schedule-2/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1976/615",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-medical-evidence-regulations-1976",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Every maternity certificate ... shall contain the following particulars—\n(a) the woman’s name;\n(b) the week in which the woman is expected to be confined or, if the maternity certificate is given after confinement, the date of that confinement and the date the confinement was expected to take place ...;\n(c) the date of the examination on which the maternity certificate is based;\n(d) the date on which the maternity certificate is signed; and\n(e) the address of the doctor or, where the maternity certificate is signed by a registered midwife, the personal identification number given to her by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (“NMC”) on her registration in the register maintained under article 5 of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 and the expiry date of that registration\nand shall bear opposite the word “Signature”, the signature of the person giving the maternity certificate written after there has been entered on the maternity certificate the woman’s name and the expected date or, as the case may be, the date of the confinement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 substituted (6.4.1987) by The Social Security (Medical Evidence) Amendment Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/409), regs. 1(1), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 4 omitted (1.4.2026) by virtue of The Social Security and Statutory Maternity Pay (Evidence of Pregnancy and Compensation of Employers) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/201), regs. 1(2), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 4(b) omitted (1.11.1991) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2284), regs. 1, 21(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4(e) substituted (1.8.2004) by The Health Act 1999 (Consequential Amendments) (Nursing and Midwifery) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1771), art. 1(1), Sch. para. 56(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/615/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:26:13.682837+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."
}