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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-act-1994/schedule-1/paragraph-45",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/18",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-act-1994",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/45",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Schedule 13 to the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (relationship between statutory maternity pay and other benefits) is amended as follows.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) For paragraph 2 (invalidity) substitute—\n“ Incapacity benefit\n2 (1) Regulations may provide that in prescribed circumstances a day which falls within the ma ternity pay period shall be treated as a day of incapacity for work for the purpose of determin ing entitlement to the higher rate of short-term incapacity benefit or to long-term incapacity benefit.\n(2) Regulations may provide that an amount equal to a woman’s statutory maternity pay for a period shall be deducted from any such benefit in respect of the same period and a woman shall be entitled to such benefit only if there is a balance after the deduction and, if there is such a balance, at a weekly rate equal to it.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 45(2) repealed (7.10.1996) by 1995 c. 18, s. 41(5), Sch. 3; S.I. 1996/2208, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1992 c. 4."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/18/schedule/1/paragraph/45",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:10.146961+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."
}