{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/206",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Maternity Pay (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 21 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 21 of the principal Regulations (normal weekly earnings)—\n(a) in paragraph (1) for “paragraphs (2) to (6)” there shall be substituted “the following provisions of this regulation”;\n(b) after paragraph (6) there shall be added the following paragraph—\n“(7) In a 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": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/134",
      "affecting_title": "The Statutory Maternity Pay (General) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/206/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:35:55.260390+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."
}