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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/work-and-families-northern-ireland-order-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "nisi/2006/1947",
  "legislation_title": "The Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/work-and-families-northern-ireland-order-2006",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "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—\n“(i) during the maternity allowance period, except in prescribed cases, she does any work in employment as an employed or self-employed earner;\n(ia) during the maternity allowance period she fails without good cause to observe any prescribed rules of behaviour; or”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2006/1947/schedule/1/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:21.513152+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."
}