{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-general-and-statutory-sick-pay-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2001/36",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Maternity Pay (General) and Statutory Sick Pay (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-general-and-statutory-sick-pay-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Regulations",
  "text": "For regulation 32 of the Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (penalties) there shall be substituted the following regulation—\n“Offences\n32 Any person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes or fails to comply with any provision contained in regulation 25, 25A, 26 or 29, shall be guilty of an offence under the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1987 No. 30; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1991 No. 488"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/36/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:13:08.048979+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."
}