(a)for “the weekly rate specified in Schedule 4, Part I, paragraph 4” there is substituted “the appropriate weekly rate determined under subsection (1A) below”, and
(b)in paragraph (b) (employment condition) for “52 weeks immediately preceding the 14th week before” there is substituted “66 weeks immediately preceding”.
(2)After that subsection there is inserted—“1A For the purposes of subsection (1) above the appropriate weekly rate is—a Lin the case of a woman who is engaged in employment as an employed earner in the week immediately preceding the 14th week before the expected week of confinement, a weekly rate equal to the lower rate of statutory maternity pay for the time being prescribed under section 166(3) below or the weekly rate specified in Schedule 4, Part I, paragraph 4, whichever is the higher; andb in any other case, the weekly rate specified in Schedule 4, Part I,paragraph 4.”
(3)At the end of subsection (3)
(4)In Schedule 3 to the Contributions and Benefits Act, in paragraph 3 of Part I (contribution condition for maternity allowance) in sub-paragraph (1)(a) for “52 weeks immediately preceding the 14th week before” there is substituted “66 weeks immediately preceding”.
5Recovery of amounts paid by way of statutory maternity pay#
(1)Section 167 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (recovery of amounts paid by way of statutory maternity pay) is amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (1)—
(a)in paragraph (a), for the words from “the amount” onwards there is substituted—“an amount equal to the sum of—i the aggregate of such of those payments as qualify for small employers' relief; andii an amount equal to 92 per cent., of the aggregate of such of those ayments as do not so qualify,by making one or more deductions from his contributions payments;”
(b)in paragraph (b), for “any payments of statutory maternity pay which they have made” there is substituted “amounts which they are entitled to recover by virtue of paragraph (a) above”, and
(c)in paragraph (c), after “statutory maternity pay”(where first occurring) there is inserted “qualifying for small employers' relief ”.
(2)In Schedule 4 to the Contributions and Benefits Act, in paragraph 4 of Part I after “Maternity allowance” there is inserted “(in cases not falling within section 35(1A)(a))”.
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