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Rate of benefit.
[1997 s10(1); 2004 SWA s7]
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49.—(1) Subject to this Act, the weekly rate of maternity benefit shall be an amount equal to the greater of—
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(a) 75 per cent of the reckonable weekly earnings, reckonable weekly emoluments or reckonable weekly income, as the case may be, of the woman to whom the benefit is payable in the income tax year prescribed for the purposes of this section, or
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(b) the amount of disability benefit, including any increases of that benefit, which the woman would otherwise receive if she was entitled to that benefit, or
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(c) any amount that shall be prescribed.
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(2) In this section “reckonable weekly earnings”, “reckonable weekly emoluments” and “reckonable weekly income” mean the average amount, calculated in accordance with regulations, of reckonable earnings, reckonable emoluments, reckonable income and any other income that may be prescribed, received in a week up to that limit that may be prescribed.
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