{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-1987/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-1987/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Mariners",
  "text": "(1) In this regulation, “foreign-going ship”, “home-trade ship” and “mariner” have the same meanings as in Case C of Part VIII of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979 and the expressions “ship” and “ship or vessel”, except in paragraph (3), include hovercraft.\n(2) Subject to regulation 3, a mariner engaged in employment on board a home-trade ship with an employer who has a place of business within the United Kingdom shall be treated as an employee for the purposes of Part V of the 1986 Act, notwithstanding that she may not be employed in Great Britain.\n(3) A mariner who is engaged in employment—\n(a) on a foreign-going ship, or\n(b) on a home-trade ship with an employer who does not have a place of business within the United Kingdom,\nshall not be treated as an employee for the purposes of Part V of the 1986 Act, notwithstanding that she may have been employed in Great Britain.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/591; there are no amendments relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/418/regulation/7",
    "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."
}