§ 37. Mr. BENTHAMasked if a female employed contributor's husband is a voluntary contributor under the National Insurance Act and has not the necessary fifty-two weeks' contribution to enable him to claim maternity benefit, the wife, who has been insured since the 15th July, 1912, is debarred from claiming the maternity benefit in her own name; if not, is a friendly society entitled to refuse to pay the same?
§ Mr. MASTERMANFor the reasons stated in detail in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for the Bridgeton Division of Glasgow, on the 13th March, the answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative; the second part does not, therefore, arise.