§ Sub-section (2).—At the end of Subsection (1) of Section eighteen of the principal Act the following words shall be inserted:—
§ Where a woman who is an employed contributor is the wife of an insured person, or if the child is a posthumous child, the widow, then—
§ (a) if her husband is, or was at the date of his death, a member of an approved society, and by reason of an insufficient number of contributions having been paid by or in respect of him, or on account of arrears, no maternity benefit is payable in respect of his insurance, she shall on her confinement be entitled to receive in respect of her own 2757 insurance such sum as she would have been entitled to receive if he had not been an insured person; and
§ Lords Amendments:—
§ In Sub-section (2), leave out the words "of an insured person" ["wife of an insured person"].
§ After the word "widow" ["widow of an insured person"), insert the words, "of an insured person."