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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-general-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1335",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Amendment Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-general-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Amendment Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 12th June 1996.\n(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Regulations 1986.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1960. Relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1994/1367."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1335/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:43:31.338739+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."
}