SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3 Contribution Conditions for Entitlement to Benefit

Part I The Conditions

Child’s special allowance

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1

The contribution condition for a child’s special allowance is that—

a

the contributor concerned must in respect of any one relevant year have actually paid contributions of a relevant class; and

b

the earnings factor derived from those contributions must be not less than that year’s lower earnings limit multiplied by 50.

2

For the purposes of this condition, a relevant year is any year ending before the date on which the contributor concerned attained pensionable age or died under that age.