{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/36",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 5 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 5(1) of the principal Regulations (entitlement to payments for maternity expenses) for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—\n“(a) the claimant or the claimant’s partner has, in respect of the date of the claim for a maternity payment, been awarded either income support or family credit; and”\nand in sub-paragraph (c) for the words from “in regulation 7” to the end of that sub-paragraph there shall be substituted “in regulation 19 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987.”\n(2) For paragraph (2) of regulation 5 of the principal Regulations (amount of maternity payment) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“(2) Subject to Part IV of these Regulations, the amount of a maternity payment shall be—\n(a) where the claim is made on or after 11th April 1988 and before the confinement, £85 in respect of each expected child, but if the claim was made on an earlier date, £80 in respect of each expected child;\n(b) where the claim is made after the confinement, if that confinement has ended on or after 11th April 1988, £85 in respect of each child, including any child who is stillborn, but if the confinement has ended before that date, £80 in respect of each child, including any child who is stillborn;\n(c) where the claim is made after a child has been adopted and the adoption has taken place on or after 11th April 1988, £85 in respect of that child, but if the adoption has taken place before that date, £80 in respect of that child.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1968."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/36/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:13:24.093837+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}