# The Social Security (Maternity Benefit) Regulations 1975, Regulation 12: Special provisions relating to delay or failure in claiming maternity allowance


For the purposes of section 22(4) (earnings-related supplement of maternity allowance), a woman shall be treated as having been entitled to maternity allowance for any day if she would have been so entitled but for any delay or failure to make or prosecute a claim, so however that she shall not be so treated where she shows that she did not intend, by failing to acquire or establish a right to benefit for that day, to cause a new period of interruption of employment to begin for the purposes of earnings-related supplement.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/553/regulation/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-benefit-regulations-1975/regulation-12
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