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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-compensation-of-employers-amendment-regulations-2002/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/225",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Maternity Pay (Compensation of Employers) Amendment Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-compensation-of-employers-amendment-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Statutory Maternity Pay (Compensation of Employers) Amendment Regulations 2002.\n(2) These Regulations shall come into force on 6th April 2002 and shall have effect in relation to payments of statutory maternity pay made on or after that date.\n(3) In these Regulations—\n“the principal GB Regulations” means the Statutory Maternity Pay (Compensation of Employers) and Miscellaneous Amendment Regulations 1994;\n“the principal NI Regulations” means the Statutory Maternity Pay (Compensation of Employers) and Miscellaneous Amendment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/1882; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1995/566 and 1999/363."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1994 No. 271; the relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1995 No. 74 and 1999 No. 65."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/225/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:15:55.302762+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."
}