{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-sweden-order-1988/schedule/paragraph-wrapper16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-sweden-order-1988/schedule/paragraph-wrapper16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/590",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Sweden) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-sweden-order-1988",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/wrapper16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Article 12",
  "text": "(1) Where a person has, since his last arrival in the territory of Jersey or Guernsey, completed a contribution period under the legislation of Jersey or Guernsey, as the case may be, then for the purpose of any claim for maternity grant made under the legislation of Jersey or Guernsey, any insurance period completed under the legislation of Sweden shall, in accordance with the provisions of Article 10 of this Convention, be treated as if it were an insurance period completed under the legislation under which the claim is made.\n(2) Where a woman is confined in Great Britain, Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man (other than a woman who is treated as having been confined there by virtue of paragraph (3) of this Article), periods during which she was present in the territory of Sweden shall be treated for the purpose of a claim by her for maternity grant under the legislation of the State in whose territory the confinement occurred as if they were periods during which she was present in that territory.\n(3) For the purpose of any right to maternity grant under the legislation of the United Kingdom a confinement in the territory of Sweden shall be treated as if it were a confinement in the territory of the United Kingdom.\n(4) Where, but for the provisions of this paragraph, a person would be entitled to receive a maternity grant under the legislation of more than one part of the territory of the United Kingdom by virtue of the provisions of this Convention, a grant shall be payable only under the legislation of the part in which the confinement occurred. If the confinement occurred in Sweden the grant shall be payable under the legislation of that part of the territory of the United Kingdom in which she was last resident.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/590/schedule/paragraph/wrapper16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:08:50.366990+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."
}