Paragraph 5

In section 35 (state maternity allowance), in subsection (3)(a) (power by regulations to prescribe cases in which a woman is disqualified from receiving a maternity allowance), for sub-paragraph (i) substitute—

“(i)

during the maternity allowance period, except in prescribed cases, she does any work in employment as an employed or self-employed earner;

(ia)

during the maternity allowance period she fails without good cause to observe any prescribed rules of behaviour; or”.