{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-general-regulations-1986/regulation-30",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/1960",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Regulations 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-general-regulations-1986",
  "path": "regulation/30",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Payments by the Secretary of State",
  "text": "Where the Secretary of State becomes liable in accordance with regulation 7 to make payments of statutory maternity pay to a woman, the first payment shall be made as soon as reasonably practicable after he becomes so liable, and payments thereafter shall be made at weekly intervals, by means of an instrument of payment or by such other means as appears to the Secretary of State to be appropriate in the circumstances of any particular case.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1960/regulation/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:38:33.918321+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."
}