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Conditions for receipt.
[1952, Sch. 4; 1978 AM, s. 13]
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105.—(1) The contribution conditions for a maternity grant are—
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(a) that the relevant person has qualifying contributions in respect of not less than 26 contribution weeks in respect of the period beginning with that person's entry into insurance and ending immediately before the date of confinement, and
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(b) that the relevant person has qualifying contributions or credited contributions in respect of not less than 26 contribution weeks in the last complete contribution year before the beginning of the benefit year in which the relevant time occurs or in respect of a subsequent complete contribution year before the relevant time.
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(2) In this section “relevant person” means the person by whom the conditions are to be satisfied and “relevant time” means the date of the confinement or, where the relevant person is the husband and he was over pensionable age or dead on that date, the date of his attaining pensionable age or dying under that age.
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[1952, s. 14]
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(3) Regulations may provide for modifications of the contribution conditions in this section but, where such regulations are proposed to be made, a draft thereof shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas and the regulations shall not be made until a resolution approving of the draft has been passed by each such House.
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