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AI Summary of 51. Supplementary provisions.

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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 16 September 2024 - onwards
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51. Supplementary provisions.

(1) In this Chapter -

(a) "confinement"means - (i) labour resulting in the issue of a living child, or (ii) labour resulting in the issue of a stillborn child, and "confined" shall be construed accordingly;

"premature birth period" means a period which - (a) commences on a date of confinement which occurs on or after 1 October 2017, and (b) expires two weeks before the end of the expected week of confinement;

"relevant day" means the first day for which maternity benefit is claimed;

"stillborn child" has the same meaning as it has in the Civil Registration Act 2004.

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