{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-general-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-general-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 21 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 21 (normal weekly earnings) after paragraph (6) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“(7) In any case where a woman receives a back-dated pay increase which includes a sum in respect of a relevant period, normal weekly earnings shall be calculated as if such a sum was paid in that relevant period even though received after that period..”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1335/regulation/2",
    "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."
}