{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-medical-evidence-regulations-1987/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-medical-evidence-regulations-1987/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/235",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Maternity Pay (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-medical-evidence-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Evidence of pregnancy and confinement",
  "text": "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 20th week before the expected week of confinement, in accordance with the rules set out in Part I of the Schedule to these regulations—\n(a) in the appropriate form as set out in Part II of that Schedule, or\n(b) in a form substantially to the like effect with such variations as the circumstances may require.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/235/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:32:32.856722+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."
}