{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-general-regulations-1986/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-general-regulations-1986/regulation-4.json",
  "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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Modification of entitlement provisions",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) In relation to a woman in employed earner's employment who was confined before the 14th week before the expected week of confinement section 164(2)(a) and (b) of the Contributions and Benefits Act shall have effect as if for the conditions there set out, there was substituted the conditions that—\n(a) she would but for her confinement have been in employed earner's employment with an employer for a continuous period of at least 26 weeks ending with the week immediately preceding the 14th week before the expected week of confinement, and\n(b) her normal weekly earnings for the period of 8 weeks ending with the week immediately preceding the week of her confinement are not less than the lower earnings limit in force under under section 5(1)(a) of the Contributions and Benefits Act immediately before the commencement of the week of her confinement.\n(3) In relation to a woman to whom paragraph (2) applies, section 166 of the Contributions and Benefits Act shall be modified so that subsection (2) has effect as if the reference to the period of 8 weeks immediately preceding the 14th week before the expected week of confinement was a reference to the period of 8 weeks immediately preceding the week in which her confinement occurred.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1) omitted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Social Security Maternity Benefits and Statutory Sick Pay (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1367), regs. 1(2), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Maternity Benefits and Statutory Sick Pay (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1367), regs. 1(2), 3(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Maternity Benefits and Statutory Sick Pay (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1367), regs. 1(2), 3(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 4(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Maternity Benefits and Statutory Sick Pay (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1367), regs. 1(2), 3(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 4(3) inserted (6.4.1988) by The Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Amendment Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/532), regs. 1(1), 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1960/regulation/4",
    "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."
}