The Social Security, Statutory Maternity Pay and Statutory Sick Pay (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2002

Amendment of regulation 23 of the Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Regulations

7.—(1) Regulation 23 of the Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Regulations (notice of absence from work) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In paragraph (1)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a) for the words “that her absence from work with him is wholly because of her confinement” there shall be substituted the words “of the date on which she was confined”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (b) for the words “21 days” there shall be substituted the words “28 days”.

(3) In paragraph (2)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a) the words “wholly or partly because of pregnancy or confinement” shall be omitted;

(b) in sub-paragraph (b) for the words “21 days” there shall be substituted the words “28 days”.

(4) For paragraph (4) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(4) Subject to paragraph (5), section 164(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act (statutory maternity pay-entitlement and liability to pay) shall not have effect in the case of a woman who leaves her employment with the person who will be liable to pay her statutory maternity pay after the beginning of the week immediately preceding the 14th week before the expected week of confinement.”.