Regulation 5 Women who worked in the European Community

(1)

A woman who is an employee or treated as an employee under regulation 2 and who—

(a)

in the week immediately preceding the 14th week before the expected week of confinement M1 was in employed earner's employment with an employer in Great Britain, and

(b)

had in any week within the period of F126 weeks immediately preceding that week been employed by the same employer in F2a member State,

shall be treated for the purposes of sections 46(2) and 48 of the 1986 Act as having been employed in employed earner's employment in those weeks in which she was so employed in the F3... member State.

F4(2)

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 5(1)(b) substituted (6.4.1996) by The Social Security Contributions, Statutory Maternity Pay and Statutory Sick Pay (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/777), regs. 1, 4(5)(a) (with reg. 6)
F2: Word in reg. 5(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Social Security (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/128), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 4(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3: Word in reg. 5(1) 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(3)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F4: Reg. 5(2) omitted (6.4.1996) by virtue of The Social Security Contributions, Statutory Maternity Pay and Statutory Sick Pay (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/777), regs. 1, 4(5)(b) (with reg. 6)

Marginal citations

M1: See section 50(1) of the Social Security Act 1986 for the meaning of “confinement”.