(1)Regulations may provide that—
(a)any sum or a prescribed part of any sum mentioned in the following subsection and prescribed amounts which the regulations provide are to be treated as related to any of those sums shall be deemed for the purposes of the principal Act and the [1976 c. 71.] Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 to be earnings payable by and to such persons as are prescribed and to be so payable in respect of such periods as are prescribed; and
(b)those periods shall, so far as they are not periods of employment, be deemed for those purposes to be periods of employment; and
(c)any provision of the [1975 c. 71.] Employment Protection Act 1975 relating to maternity pay or the Maternity Pay Fund shall have effect with such modifications as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in consequence of any provision made in pursuance of the preceding paragraphs.
(2)The sums referred to in paragraph (a) of the preceding subsection are—
(a)a sum payable by way of maternity pay or payable by the Secretary of State in pursuance of section 43 of the Employment Protection Act 1975 in respect of maternity pay;
(b)a sum which is payable by the Secretary of State by virtue of section 64(3)(a) of that Act in respect of arrears of pay and which by virtue of section 45(1) of that Act is to go towards discharging a liability to pay maternity pay;
(c)a sum payable in respect of arrears of pay in pursuance of an order for re-instatement or re-engagement under that Act;
(d)a sum payable by way of pay in pursuance of an order under that Act for the continuation of a contract of employment;
(e)a sum payable by way of remuneration in pursuance of a protective award under that Act.