13.—(1) Regulation 20 of the Statutory Maternity Pay Regulations (meaning of “earnings”) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall be omitted.
(3) For paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“(2) For the purposes of section 171(4) of the Contributions and Benefits Act, the expression “earnings” refers to gross earnings and includes any remuneration or profit derived from a woman’s employment except any payment or amount which is excluded from the computation of a person’s earnings under regulation 19 or 19B of the Social Security (Contributions) Regulations 1979(1).”.
(4) Paragraphs (3), (5) and (6) shall be omitted.