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PART III
Amendments to Existing Schemes
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Maternity allowance.
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8.—(1) Section 24 (inserted by section 19 of the Act of 1992) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (1) of the following subsection:
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“(1A) Regulations may provide for entitling to maternity allowance, subject to such conditions and in such circumstances as may be prescribed, such class or classes of women who would be entitled thereto but for the fact that the conditions set out in subsections (1) (b) and (1) (c) are not satisfied.”.
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(2) Section 26 (inserted by section 19 of the Act of 1992) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (3) of the following subsection:
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“(3) In this section ‘reckonable weekly earnings’ means the average amount, calculated in accordance with regulations, of reckonable earnings and such other income as may be prescribed, received in a week up to such limit as may be prescribed.”.
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(3) Subsection (2) of this section shall come into operation on such day as the Minister may appoint by order.
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