Regulation 4 Women outside the European Community

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 47(1) of the Order, no liability to make payments of statutory maternity pay to a woman shall arise in respect of any week within the maternity pay period for any part of which she is not present in any member State, or any subsequent week within that period.

A woman shall be treated for the purposes of paragraph (1) as present in a member State while she is in transit between two such States.