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(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, the weekly rate of unemployment benefit or sickness benefit shall be increased by the amount specified in relation to the benefit in question in Schedule 4, Part IV, column (4), for any period during which—
(a)the beneficiary is—
(i)residing with his wife, or
(ii)contributing to the maintenance of his wife at a weekly rate not less than that amount; and
(b)his wife is not engaged in any one or more employments from which her weekly earnings exceed that amount.
(2)Subject to the following subsections, the weekly rate—
(a)of unemployment benefit or sickness benefit in the case of a beneficiary not entitled to an increase under subsection (1) above ; and
(b)of a maternity allowance in any case,
shall be increased by the amount specified in relation to the benefit in question in Schedule 4, Part IV, column (4), for any of the periods mentioned in subsection (3) below.
(3)Those periods are—
(a)any period during which the beneficiary's husband is incapable of self-support and either they are residing together or she is contributing to his maintenance at a weekly rate not less than the amount so specified;
(b)any period during which the beneficiary has residing with him, and is wholly or mainly maintaining, such other relative as may be prescribed, being a relative in relation to whom such further conditions as may be prescribed are fulfilled ;
(c)any period during which some female person (not a child) has the care of a child or children of the beneficiary's family, or of a child or children treated as such for the purposes of section 41, being a person in relation to whom such further conditions as may be prescribed are fulfilled.
(4)A beneficiary shall not under subsection (2) above be entitled for the same period to an increase of benefit in respect of more than one person.
(5)Where a person is entitled to unemployment benefit or sickness benefit under section 14(2)(b) or (c)—
(a)he shall not be entitled to an increase under subsection (2) above in respect of any such period as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (3) above; and
(b)if he would have been entitled only by virtue of section 33 to the retirement pension by reference to which the weekly rate of the unemployment benefit or sickness benefit is determined, the amount of any increase under this section of that weekly rate shall be that which would have been applicable by virtue of that section in the case of such an increase of the weekly rate of that pension.
(6)In this section, " relative " does not include any person who is a child.
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