Regulation 3 Amendment of regulation 5 of the principal Regulations

in paragraph (1)(b)(i) after the word “child” there shall be added the words “or still-born child”;

for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(2)

Subject to Part IV of these Regulations, the amount of a maternity payment shall be—

(a)

where the claim is made before confinement, £100 in respect of each expected child;

(b)

where the claim is made after confinement, £100 in respect of each child, including any still-born child;

(c)

where the claim is made after a child has already been adopted, £100 in respect of that child.”.