{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-statutory-maternity-pay-and-statutory-sick-pay-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2002/regulation-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 11(1) of the Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 11(1) of the Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Regulations (continuous employment)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (d) after the words “pregnancy or confinement,” there shall be added the word “or”;\n(b) after sub-paragraph (d) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph—\n“(e) absent from work in consequence of taking paternity leave, adoption leave or parental leave under Part 8 of the Employment Rights Act 1996,”.",
  "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/4",
    "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."
}