The Social Security Contributions, Statutory Maternity Pay and Statutory Sick Pay (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996

Amendment of the Statutory Maternity Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations 1987

4.—(1) The Statutory Maternity Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations 1987(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation), after the words “Act 1986” there shall be inserted—

• “, “the Contributions and Benefits Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(2), “the Contributions Regulations” means the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979(3)”.

(3) After regulation 2 (persons in other member States—meaning of “employee”) there shall be inserted—

“Persons absent from Great Britain—meaning of “employee”

2A.   Subject to regulations 2, 3 and 7(3), where a woman, while absent from Great Britain for any purpose, is gainfully employed by an employer who is liable to pay in respect of her secondary Class 1 contributions under section 6 of the Contributions and Benefits Act or regulation 120 of the Contributions Regulations(4), she shall be treated as an employee for the purposes of Part XII of the Contributions and Benefits Act.”.

(4) Regulation 4 shall be omitted.

(5) In regulation 5 (women who worked in the European Community)—

(a) in paragraph (1)(b), for the words “2 years” there shall be substituted the words “26 weeks”; and

(b) paragraph (2) shall be omitted.

(6) Regulation 9 shall be omitted.

(1)

S.I. 1987/418.

(2)

1992 c. 4.

(3)

S.I. 1979/591.

(4)

Regulation 120 was amended by S.I. 1992/97.