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PART 3
Improvement in Social Welfare Schemes
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Maternity and adoptive benefits — increase in duration.
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12.—(1) The Principal Act is amended by—
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(a) the substitution in paragraph (a) of section 37(4) (inserted by section 10 of the Act of 1997) for “fourteenth” of “twenty-second”,
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(b) in section 37(5) (inserted by section 10 of the Act of 1997)—
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(i) the substitution in paragraph (b) for “14” of “18”, and
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(ii) the substitution in paragraph (c) for subparagraph (ii) of the following subparagraph:
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“(ii) is in insurable self-employment, for a period commencing on the day after the day on which the death of the mother occurs—
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(A) where the mother dies before the expiry of the fourteenth week following the week of her confinement, to the end of the fourteenth week following the week of her confinement, or
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(B) where the mother dies after the expiry of the fourteenth week but before the expiry of the twenty-second week following the week of her confinement, to the end of the twenty-second week following the week of her confinement:”,
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and
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(c) the substitution in paragraph (b) of section 41G(4) (as amended by section 11 of the Act of 1997) for “10” in each place where it occurs of “14”.
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(2) This section shall have effect in respect of persons whose entitlement to maternity or adoptive benefit commences on or after the commencement of this section.
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(3) This section comes into operation on such day or days as the Minister may appoint by order or orders either generally or with reference to any particular purpose or provision and different days may be so appointed for different purposes or different provisions.
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(4) An order under subsection (3) may, if the order so provides, have retrospective effect.
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