Regulation 2 Evidence of pregnancy and confinement

United Kingdom

The evidence as to pregnancy and the expected date of confinement which a woman is required to provide to a person who is liable to pay her statutory maternity pay shall be furnished in the form of a maternity certificate given by a doctor or by a registered midwife, not earlier than the beginning of the F120th week before the expected week of confinement, in accordance with the rules set out in Part I of the Schedule to these regulations—

(a)

in the appropriate form as set out in Part II of that Schedule, or

(b)

in a form substantially to the like effect with such variations as the circumstances may require.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 2 inserted (28.9.2001) by The Social Security (Medical Evidence) and Statutory Maternity Pay (Medical Evidence) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/2931), regs. 1, 3(2)