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The Social Security (Maternity Benefit) Regulations 1975
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Maternity grant in respect of expectation of confinement
3. Where a woman makes a claim for a maternity grant and indicates in it that she wishes that the provisions of section 21 (which confers title to a maternity grant) shall apply to her with the substitution, for the condition that she has been confined, of the condition that she is pregnant and has reached a stage in her pregnancy which is not more than 11 weeks before the expected week of confinement, [F1then that section shall so apply to her in relation to that claim and
(a)where the expected week of confinement ends on or before 3rd July 1982, the contribution conditions for a maternity grant as set out in paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 shall apply in her case as if, for sub-paragraph (4)(a) of that paragraph, there were substituted the following:—
“(a)`the relevant time' is the beginning of the week in which it is to be expected that the claimant will be confined or, where the relevant person is the husband and he was dead or over pensionable age when the claim was made, the date of his attaining pensionable age or dying under that age;”;
(b)where the expected week of confinement begins on or after 4th July 1982 the prescribed conditions as to presence in Great Britain shall be that:
(i)she must have been present in Great Britain for a period of, or periods amounting in aggregate to, more than 182 days in the 52 weeks immediately preceding the expected week of confinement, and
(ii)she must be present in Great Britain on the date of her claim;
(c)any qualifying period or periods may be included as part of the total of more than 182 days referred to in paragraph (b)(i);
(d)paragraph (b)(ii) shall not apply to a woman who, at the date of claim, is a serving member of the forces or who is the wife of a serving member of the forces and is residing with him.]
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F1Words in reg. 3 substituted (1.4.1982) by The Social Security (Maternity Grant) Regulations 1981 (S.I. 1981/1157), reg. 1, 2(4)
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