{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-statutory-maternity-pay-and-statutory-sick-pay-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2002/regulation-19",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2690",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security, Statutory Maternity Pay and Statutory Sick Pay (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-statutory-maternity-pay-and-statutory-sick-pay-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 5 of the Social Security (Maternity Allowance) (Earnings) Regulations",
  "text": "For regulation 5 of the Social Security (Maternity Allowance) (Earnings) Regulations (the specified period) there shall be substituted the following regulation—\n“The specified period\n5 For the purpose of section 35A(4) and (5) of the Contributions and Benefits Act the specified period shall be the test period.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2690/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:41:36.829177+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."
}