Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Act 2024
|
PART 3 Amendment of Social Welfare Consolidation act 2005 | ||
|
Amendment of section 51 of Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 | ||
|
23. Section 51 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 is amended in paragraph (a) of subsection (1)— | ||
(a) by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “confinement”: | ||
“ ‘confinement’ means— | ||
(i) labour resulting in the issue of a living child, or | ||
(ii) labour resulting in the issue of a stillborn child, | ||
and ‘confined’ shall be construed accordingly;”, | ||
and | ||
(b) by the insertion of the following definition: | ||
“ ‘stillborn child’ has the same meaning as it has in the Civil Registration Act 2004 .”. |