The Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Amendment Regulations 1990

Provision of information relating to claims for certain other benefits

7.  After regulation 25 of the General Regulations (provision of information in connection with determination of questions) there shall be inserted the following regulation —

“Provision of information relating to claims for certain other benefits

25A.— (1) Where an employer who has been given notice in accordance with Section 46(4) of the 1986 Act or regulation 23 by a woman who is or has been an employee —

(a) decides that he has no liability to make payments of statutory maternity pay to her, or

(b) has made one or more payments of statutory maternity pay to her but decides, before the end of the maternity pay period and for a reason specified in paragraph (3), that he has no liability to make further payments to her,

then, in connection with the making of a claim by the woman for a maternity allowance or incapacity benefit, he shall furnish her with the information specified in the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) Where the employer decides he has no liability to make payments of statutory maternity pay to the woman, he shall furnish her with details of the decision and the reasons for it.

(3) Where the employer decides he has no liability to make further payments of statutory maternity pay to the woman because either she has within the maternity pay period been detained in legal custody or sentenced to a term of imprisonment which was not suspended, or for part of a week within the maternity pay period she was not present in a member State, he shall furnish her with —

(a) details of his decision and the reasons for it; and

(b) details of the last week in respect of which a liability to pay statutory maternity pay arose and the total number of weeks within the maternity pay period in which such a liability arose.

(4) The employer shall—

(a) return to the woman any maternity certificate provided by her in support of the notice referred to in paragraph (1); and

(b) comply with any requirements imposed by the preceding provisions of this regulation—

(i) in a case to which paragraph (2) applies, within 7 days of the decision being made, or, if earlier, within 21 days of the day the woman gave notice of her intended absence or of her confinement if that had occurred; or

(ii) in a case to which paragraph (3) refers, within 7 days of being notified of the woman’s detention or sentence or, as the case may be, absence from a member State.

(5) In this regulation, incapacity benefit' means sickness benefit, invalidity pension or a severe disablement allowance.”.