3. In regulation 21 of the principal Regulations (normal weekly earnings), for paragraph (7)(1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“(7) In any case where—
(a)a woman is awarded a pay increase (or would have been awarded such an increase had she not then been absent on statutory maternity leave); and
(b)that pay increase applies to the whole or any part of the period between the beginning of the relevant period and the end of her period of statutory maternity leave,
her normal weekly earnings shall be calculated as if such an increase applied in each week of the relevant period.”.
Paragraph (7) was inserted by regulation 2 of S.I. 1996/1335.