The Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Amendment Regulations 1996

• Citation: S.I. 1996/1335
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Amendment Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 12th June 1996.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Statutory Maternity Pay (General) Regulations 1986 .

Section 2 Amendment of regulation 21 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 21 (normal weekly earnings) after paragraph (6) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(7) In any case where a woman receives a back-dated pay increase which includes a sum in respect of a relevant period, normal weekly earnings shall be calculated as if such a sum was paid in that relevant period even though received after that period..

Section 3 Insertion of regulation 21B into the prinicipal Regulations

After regulation 21A (effect of statutory maternity pay on incapacity benefit) there shall be inserted the following regulation—

Effect of maternity allowance on statutory maternity pay

(21B) Where a woman, in any week which falls within the maternity pay period, is—

(a) in receipt of maternity allowance pursuant to the provisions of section 35(1A) of the Contributions and Benefits Act; and

(b) entitled to receive statutory maternity pay in consequence of receiving a back-dated pay increase which includes a sum in respect of the relevant period;

the employer shall only be liable to make payments of statutory maternity pay in respect of such week of an amount equal to the amount (if any) by which the rate of statutory maternity pay exceeds the rate of maternity allowance received by her in that week..