{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-1987/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/418",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Maternity Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Persons in ... member States—meaning of \"employee'",
  "text": "Subject to regulation 3, a woman who is—\n(a) gainfully employed in a member State ... in such circumstances that if her employment were in Great Britain she would be an employee for the purposes of Part V of the 1986 Act or a woman treated as such an employee under regulation 17 of the General Regulations; and\n(b) subject to the legislation of the United Kingdom under Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1408/71 , as amended from time to time, or Regulation(EC) No. 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004, as amended from time to time, on the coordination of social security systems;\nnotwithstanding that she is not employed in Great Britain, shall be treated as an employee for the purposes of Part V of the 1986 Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Social Security (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/128), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 4(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(b) inserted (15.11.2018) by The Social Security (Updating of EU References) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1084), reg. 1, Sch. para. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2 title omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Social Security (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/128), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 4(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L230, 22.8.83."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/418/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:29:59.153300+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."
}