The Social Security (Social Fund and Claims and Payments) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997

Amendment of regulation 5 of the General Regulations

4.—(1) Regulation 5 of the General Regulations(1) (entitlement to a maternity payment) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2) In paragraph (1)–

(a) at the end of sub-paragraph (b)(ii) for the word “and” there shall be substituted the word “or”;

(b) after sub-paragraph (b)(ii) there shall be inserted the following head–

“(iii) the claimant and the claimant’s spouse have been granted an order in respect of a child pursuant to section 30 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 (parental orders); and”;

(c) in sub-paragraph (c), for the words from “period” to the end of the sub-paragraph there shall be substituted the words “prescribed time for claiming a maternity payment”.

(3) After paragraph (2) (c), there shall be added the following sub-paragraph–

“(d) where the claim is made after an order referred to in paragraph (1) (b) (iii) has already been granted in respect of a child, £100 in respect of that child.”.

(1)

Regulation 5 was amended by S.I. 1988/36, 1991/2742, 1992/2149 and 1996/1443.