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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-compensation-of-employers-amendment-regulations-2011/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/725",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Maternity Pay (Compensation of Employers) Amendment Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-compensation-of-employers-amendment-regulations-2011",
  "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 2011.\n(2) These Regulations shall come into force on 6th April 2011 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, 1999/363 and 2002/225."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1994 No.271; the relevant amending instruments are S.R. 1995 No.74, S.I. 2002/225 and 2003/672."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/725/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:13:14.865336+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."
}