45(1)Schedule 13 to the M1Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (relationship between statutory maternity pay and other benefits) is amended as follows.E+W+S
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(3)For paragraph 2 (invalidity) substitute—
2(1)Regulations may provide that in prescribed circumstances a day which falls within the ma ternity pay period shall be treated as a day of incapacity for work for the purpose of determin ing entitlement to the higher rate of short-term incapacity benefit or to long-term incapacity benefit.
(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
F1Sch. 1 para. 45(2) repealed (7.10.1996) by 1995 c. 18, s. 41(5), Sch. 3; S.I. 1996/2208, art. 2(b)
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