16A. Where a woman has been in employed earner’s employment with the same employer in each of 26 consecutive weeks (but no more than 26 weeks) ending with the week immediately preceding the 14th week before the expected week of confinement then for the purpose of determining whether that employment amounts to a continuous period of at least 26 weeks, the first of those 26 weeks shall be a period commencing on the first day of her employment with the employer and ending at midnight on the first Saturday thereafter or on that day where her first day is a Saturday.]
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 16A inserted (6.4.1990) by The Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/622), regs. 1, 4