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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-curtailment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/150",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Maternity Pay (Curtailment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-curtailment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Maternity pay period curtailment notice",
  "text": "(1) A maternity pay period curtailment notice must—\n(a) be in writing;\n(b) specify the date on which M’s statutory maternity pay period is to end; and\n(c) be given to the person who is liable to pay M’s statutory maternity pay.\n(2) The date specified in accordance with paragraph (1)(b) must be—\n(a) the last day of a week;\n(b) if M has the right to maternity leave under Article 103 (ordinary maternity leave) of the 1996 Order, at least one day after the end of the compulsory maternity leave period, or, if M does not have that right, at least two weeks after the end of the pregnancy;\n(c) at least eight weeks after the date on which M gave the maternity pay period curtailment notice; and\n(d) at least one week before the last day of the maternity pay period.\n(3) In paragraph (2)(b) “the end of the compulsory maternity leave period” means whichever is the later of—\n(a) the last day of the compulsory maternity leave period provided for in regulations under Article 104(2) (compulsory maternity leave) of the 1996 Order; or\n(b) where section 205 of the Public Health Act 1936 (women not to be employed in factories or workshops within four weeks after birth of a child) applies to M’s employment, the last day of the period in which an occupier of a factory is prohibited from knowingly allowing M to be employed in that factory.\n(4) If M has more than one entitlement to statutory maternity pay in relation to C, M must curtail the maternity pay period in relation to each (or none) of those entitlements, and in relation to each of those entitlements M must specify a maternity pay period curtailment date which falls in the same calendar week.\n(5) Where M—\n(a) returns to work before giving a notice in accordance with paragraph (1); and\n(b) subsequently gives such a notice;\nthe “maternity pay period curtailment date” shall be the last day of the week in which that notice is given (irrespective of the date given in that notice under paragraph (1)).\n(6) For the purposes of paragraphs (2)(a) and (5), “week” has the meaning given in section 161(8) of the 1992 Act (the maternity pay period).\n(7) In this regulation, M is treated as returning to work where statutory maternity pay is not payable to her in accordance with 161(4) or (6) of the 1992 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 103 was substituted by Article 9 and Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2790 (N.I. 9)) (“the 1999 Order”). Article 103(3) was substituted by Article 13(1) and section 30 of Schedule 1 to the Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1947 (N.I 16)) and Article 103(4) and (7) was amended by Article 14(2) and (3) of the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2836 (N.I. 2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Article 104(2) was substituted by Article 9 and Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the 1999 Order"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1936 c. 49 as amended by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993 (c. 50), section 1, Schedule 1, Part 14 and the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), section 1, Schedule 1, Part 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 161(8) was added by paragraph 6(4) of Schedule 1 to S.I. 2006/1947 (N.I. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 161(4) was amended by paragraph 6(3) of Schedule 1 to S.I. 2006/1947"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/150/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:02:35.664758+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."
}