{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-benefit-regulations-1975/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-maternity-benefit-regulations-1975/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Maternity allowance at a reduced rate where contribution conditions are not satisfied in full",
  "text": "(1) Where a woman would be entitled to a maternity allowance but for the fact that the second contribution condition set out in paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 is not satisfied, she shall, if a rate is prescribed for her in paragraph (2), be entitled to such benefit at that rate.\n(2) The weekly rate of the allowance shall be calculated as a percentage of the rate set out in Part I of Schedule 4; in a case where the second contribution condition would have been satisfied if the multiplier in that condition (instead of being 50) had been 37½ that percentage shall be 75 per cent, and in a case where that condition would have been satisfied if the multiplier had been 25, it shall be 50 per cent.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 8(3) revoked (4.4.1977) by The Social Security Benefit (Dependency) Regulations 1977 (S.I. 1977/343), reg. 1(1), Sch. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/553/regulation/8",
    "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."
}