Citation, commencement and interpretationU.K.
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Statutory Maternity Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 6th April 1987.
(2) In these Regulations, the “1986 Act” means the Social Security Act 1986[F1, “the Contributions and Benefits Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, “the Contributions Regulations” means the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979], and the “General Regulations” means the Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Regulations 1986 M1.
(3) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations and any reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph of that regulation bearing that number.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (6.4.1996) by The Social Security Contributions, Statutory Maternity Pay and Statutory Sick Pay (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/777), regs. 1, 4(2) (with reg. 6)
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