3 Amendment of regulation 4 of the Statutory Maternity Pay Regulations
1 Regulation 4 of the Statutory Maternity Pay Regulations (modification of entitlement provisions) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
2 Paragraph (1) shall be omitted.
3 In paragraph (2)–
(a) for the words “section 46(2)(a) and (b) of the 1986 Act” there shall be substituted the words “section 164(2)(a) and (b) of the Contributions and Benefits Act”;
(b) for the words “under section 4(1)(a) of the 1975 Act” there shall be substituted the words “under section 5(1)(a) of the Contributions and Benefits Act.”.
4 For paragraph (3) there shall be substituted the following paragraph–

“3 In relation to a woman to whom paragraph (2) applies, section 166 of the Contributions and Benefits Act shall be modified so that subsection (2) has effect as if the reference to the period of 8 weeks immediately preceding the 14th week before the expected week of confinement was a reference to the period of 8 weeks immediately preceding the week in which her confinement occurred.”

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