The Social Security (Medical Evidence) and Statutory Maternity Pay (Medical Evidence) (Amendment) Regulations 2001

Amendment of the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976

2.—(1) The Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976 (1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 2(3) (evidence of incapacity for work and confinement) after the words “given by a doctor or by a registered midwife” there shall be inserted the words, “not earlier than the beginning of the 20th week before the week in which she is expected to be confined,”.

(3) In Part II of Schedule 2 (form of certificate)—

(a) for the words “than 14 weeks” there shall be substituted the words “than 20 weeks”;

(b) for the words “Family Health Service Authority” there shall be substituted the words “Health Authority”.

(1)

S.I. 1976/615; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1987/409 and 1991/2284.