# Social Security Act 1975, Paragraph 2


(1) The contribution conditions for a maternity grant are the following.
(2) The first condition is that—
(a) the contributor concerned must in respect of any one year have actually paid contributions of a relevant class, and those contributions must have been paid before the relevant time ; and
(b) the earnings factor derived from those contributions must be not less than that year's lower earnings limit multiplied by 25.
(3) The second condition is that—
(a) the contributor concerned must in respect of the relevant past year have either paid or been credited with contributions of a relevant class ; and
(b) the earnings factor derived from those contributions must be not less than that year's lower earnings limit multiplied by 25.
(4) For the purposes of these conditions—
(a) " the relevant time " is—
(i) the date of the claimant's confinement where she herself is the contributor concerned, or that contributor is her husband and he is on that date alive and under pensionable age, and
(ii) in any other case, the date on which the contributor concerned attained pensionable age or died under that age ; and
(b) " the relevant past year" is the last complete year before the beginning of the benefit year in which the relevant time falls.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/14/schedule/3/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1975/schedule-3/paragraph-2
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