{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-general-and-statutory-sick-pay-general-amendment-regulations-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/206",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Maternity Pay (General) and Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-general-and-statutory-sick-pay-general-amendment-regulations-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations provide that any person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes or fails to comply with certain provisions of the Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations 1982 and the Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Regulations 1986 is guilty of an offence. The penalty for such an offence is set out in section 113(3) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992.\nThese Regulations do not impose any costs on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/206/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:06:16.387875+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."
}