{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-northern-ireland-1987/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1987/171",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Maternity Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-northern-ireland-1987",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Women who worked in the European Community",
  "text": "(1) A woman who is an employee or treated as an employee under regulation 2 and who—\n(a) in the week immediately preceding the 14th week before the expected week of confinement was in employed earner's employment with an employer in Northern Ireland, and\n(b) had in any week within the period of 2 years immediately preceding that week been employed by the same employer in a member State other than the United Kingdom,\nshall be treated for the purposes of Articles 47(2) and 49 of the Order as having been employed in employed earner's employment in those weeks in which she was so employed in that member State.\n(2) In relation to a woman to whom Article 49(5) of the Order refers (higher rate for woman normally employed 8 hours a week or more for the last 5 years), a reference to 5 years shall be substituted for the reference to 2 years in paragraph (1)(b).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2019/129",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1987/171/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:21:31.639589+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."
}