Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 13 N.I. Relationship of Statutory Maternity Pay with Benefits and Other Payments, etc.

[F1 Incapacity benefit] N.I.

Textual Amendments

F1 Cross-heading and para. 2 in Sch. 13 substituted (13.4.1995) by S.I. 1994/1898 (N.I. 12), art. 13(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 44(3) (with art. 15(1)); S.R. 1994/450, art. 2(d), Sch. Pt. IV

[F2 2 (1) Regulations may provide that in prescribed circumstances a day which falls within the maternity pay period shall be treated as a day of incapacity for work for the purpose of determining entitlement to the higher rate of short-term incapacity benefit or to long-term incapacity benefit. N.I.

(2) Regulations may provide that an amount equal to a woman’s statutory maternity pay for a period shall be deducted from any such benefit in respect of the same period and a woman shall be entitled to such benefit only if there is a balance after the deduction and, if there is such a balance, at a weekly rate equal to it.]

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 13 para. 2 substituted (13.4.1995) by S.I. 1994/1898 (N.I. 12), art. 13(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 44(3) (with art. 15(1)); S.R. 1994/450, art. 2(d), Sch. Pt. IV