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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-payment-schemes-electronic-communications-regulations-2002/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/3047",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Payment Schemes (Electronic Communications) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-payment-schemes-electronic-communications-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Statutory Payment Schemes (Electronic Communications) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st January 2003.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Board” means the Commissioners of Inland Revenue;\n“official computer system” means a computer system maintained by or on behalf of the Board—\n(a) to send or receive information or payments; or\n(b) to process or store information; and\n“the statutory payments” means statutory maternity pay, statutory paternity pay and statutory adoption pay.\n(3) References in these Regulations to information and to the delivery of information shall be construed in accordance with section 132(8) of the Finance Act 1999.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/125",
      "affecting_title": "The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2015/125",
      "affecting_title": "The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015"
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    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/2493",
      "affecting_title": "The Statutory Payment Schemes (Electronic Communications) (Amendment) Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2020/240",
      "affecting_title": "The Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/326",
      "affecting_title": "The Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3047/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:36:53.992571+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."
}