164 Statutory maternity pay—entitlement and liability to pay

Part XII Statutory Maternity Pay

164  Statutory maternity pay—entitlement and liability to pay

(1)     Where a woman who is or has been an employee satisfies the conditions set out in this section, she shall be entitled, in accordance with the following provisions of this Part of this Act, to payments to be known as “statutory maternity pay”.

(2)     The conditions mentioned in subsection (1) above are—

(a)     that she has been in employed earner's employment with an employer for a continuous period of at least 26 weeks ending with the week immediately preceding the 14th week before the expected week of confinement but has ceased to work for him. . .;

[(aa)     that at the end of the week immediately preceding that 14th week she was entitled to be in that employment;]

(b)     that her normal weekly earnings for the period of 8 weeks ending with the week immediately preceding the 14th week before the expected week of confinement are not less than the lower earnings limit in force under section 5(1)(a) above immediately before the commencement of the 14th week before the expected week of confinement; and

(c)     that she has become pregnant and has reached, or been confined before reaching,

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