{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-general-regulations-1986/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-general-regulations-1986/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Prescribed rate of statutory maternity pay",
  "text": "The rate of statutory maternity pay prescribed under section 166(1)(b) of the Contributions and Benefits Act is a weekly rate of £194.32.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 substituted (6.4.2003) by The Social Security, Statutory Maternity Pay and Statutory Sick Pay (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2690), regs. 1(1)(b), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sum in Reg. 6 substituted (5.4.2026 for specified purposes and 6.4.2026 otherwise with effect in accordance with art. 1(4) of the amending S.I.) by The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/148), arts. 1(3)(e), 9"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1960/regulation/6",
    "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."
}