{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-benefit-regulations-1975/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-benefit-regulations-1975/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/553",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Maternity Benefit) Regulations 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-benefit-regulations-1975",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Maternity grants in respect of multiple births",
  "text": "A woman who has given birth to twins or a greater number of children shall, if the other conditions for the payment of a maternity grant are satisfied in respect of the confinement, be entitled to a maternity grant for each child who has lived for at least 12 hours after being born; but it shall be a condition for such entitlement that she makes a claim for the grant before the expiration of the prescribed time for making a claim for it and furnishes sufficient evidence as to the number of the children who lived for at least 12 hours after being born.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/553/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:12:14.114367+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."
}