{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-1987/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-1987/regulation-3.json",
  "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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Meaning of employee—general",
  "text": "No woman who, by virtue of regulation 17 of the General Regulations, would be treated as not being an employee for the purposes of Part V of the 1986 Act if her employment were in Great Britain, shall be treated as an employee by virtue of these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/418/regulation/3",
    "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."
}