as one with the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) (Benefit) Regulations, 1948(a)[1] (hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations"), and shall come into operation on the 18th November, 1957.
2. In paragraph (2) of regulation 1 of the principal regulations (which paragraph makes provision for their interpretation ) the following definition shall be inserted after the definition of "The National Insurance Act".—
"'the Act of 1957'" means the National Insurance Act, 1957;".
3. In sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (2) of regulation 8 of the principal regulations (which sub-paragraph provides that a beneficiary shall not be entitled to an increase of benefit in respect of a female relative for any period during which she is engaged in any gainful occupation from which her weekly earnings exceed twenty shillings), for the words "twenty shillings" there shall be substituted the words "forty shillings".
4. The following regulation shall be substituted for regulation 9 of the principal regulations, as amended(b)[2]:—
9. For the purposes of paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section 18 of the Act (which paragraph relates to an increase of benefit in respect of a female person, not being a child, who has the care of a child or children of the beneficiary's family), the following further conditions shall apply in relation to any such female person:
(1)A beneficiary shall not be entitled to an increase of benefit under the said section 18 in respect of any such female person unless—
(a) she is residing with the beneficiary; or
(b) she is employed by the beneficiary in an employment from which her weekly earnings (calculated or estimated in such manner and on such basis as is prescribed by regulation 7 for the purpose of the said section 18 in relation to the earnings of a wife) are not less than the amount mentioned in the said section 18, and was so employed by him before the date of the relevant accident, subject to the qualification that the condition of employment before that date shall not apply in a case where the necessity for her employment first arose thereafter; or
(c) the beneficiary is contributing to her maintenance at a weekly rate of not less than the amount mentioned in the said section 18.
(2)A beneficiary shall not be entitled to an increase of benefit under the said section 18 in respect of any such female person for any period during which that female person (not being a person who is employed by, but is not residing with, the beneficiary) is engaged in any gainful occupation or occupations (other than her employment by the beneficiary in caring for a child or children of the beneficiary's family) from which her weekly earnings (calculated or estimated in such manner and on such basis as is prescribed as aforesaid for the purpose of the said section 18) exceed forty shillings.
