{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-2002/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-2002/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2821",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Treatment of persons in ... EEA States as employees",
  "text": "A person who is—\n(a) gainfully employed in an EEA State ... in such circumstances that, if his employment were in Great Britain, he would be an employee for the purposes of Parts 12ZA and 12ZB of the Act, or a person treated as such an employee under regulation 32 of the General Regulations; and\n(b) subject to the legislation of the United Kingdom under Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1408/71 as amended from time to time or Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 as amended from time to time on the coordination of social security systems,\nnotwithstanding that he is not employed in Great Britain, shall be treated as an employee for the purposes of Parts 12ZA and 12ZB of the Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Employment Rights (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/535), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 11(b) (with Sch. 1 para. 22); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(b) inserted (5.3.2019) by The Employment Rights (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/535), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 11(c) (with Sch. 1 para. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3 heading omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Employment Rights (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/535), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 11(a) (with Sch. 1 para. 22); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 8.12.2002, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See OJ No. L 28, 30.1.1997, p. 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2821/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:40:16.877182+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."
}