
1 

(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.
2 
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..”
3 
After regulation 21A (effect of statutory maternity pay on incapacity benefit) there shall be inserted the following regulation—“
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..”
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Oliver Heald
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security
16th May 1996