{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-northern-ireland-1987/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-northern-ireland-1987/regulation-7.json",
  "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/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 B of Part VIII of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979 and the expression “ship or vessel” within those expressions shall, 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 VI, notwithstanding that she may not be employed in Northern Ireland.\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 VI, notwithstanding that she may have been employed in Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1979 No. 186, to which there are amendments not relevant to these regulations"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1987/171/regulation/7",
    "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."
}