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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-northern-ireland-1987/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1987/171",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Maternity Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987",
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  "kind": "regulation",
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  "heading": "Persons in other member States — meaning of “employee”",
  "text": "Subject to regulation 3, a woman who is—\n(a) gainfully employed in a member State other than the United Kingdom in such circumstances that if her employment were in Northern Ireland she would be an employee for the purposes of Part VI 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,\nnotwithstanding that she is not employed in Northern Ireland, shall be treated as an employee for the purposes of Part VI.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L230, 22.8.83"
    }
  ],
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      "affecting": "uksi/2019/129",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019"
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    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2018/1085",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Updating of EU References) (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2018"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1987/171/regulation/2",
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  "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."
}