120 Exclusion or curtailment of other statutory rights to pay

120  Exclusion or curtailment of other statutory rights to pay

(1)     The Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 is amended as follows.

(2)     In section 35 (entitlement to maternity allowance), after subsection (3) there is inserted—

“(3A)     Regulations may provide for the duration of the maternity allowance period as it applies to a woman to be reduced, subject to prescribed restrictions and conditions.

(3B)     Regulations under subsection (3A) are to secure that the reduced period ends at a time—

(a)     after a prescribed period beginning with the day on which the woman is confined, and

(b)     when at least a prescribed part of the maternity allowance period remains unexpired.

(3C)     Regulations under subsection (3A) may, in particular, prescribe restrictions and conditions relating to—

(a)     the end of the woman's entitlement to maternity leave;

(b)     the doing of work by the woman;

(c)     the taking of prescribed steps by the woman or another person as regards leave under section 75E of the Employment Rights Act 1996 in respect of the child;

(d)     the taking of prescribed steps by a

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