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 to an increase of benefit in respect of his wife for any period during which she is engaged in any gainful occupation from which her weekly earnings exceed twenty, or in certain cases forty, shillings ) for the words twenty shillings "there shall be substituted the words forty shillings", and the proviso to that paragraph shall cease to have effect.

Given under the official seal of the Industrial Injuries Joint Authority this 19th day of June, nineteen hundred and fifty -seven.



 EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport.)

These Regulations further amend the National Insurance Industrial Injuries) (Benefit) Regulations, 1948, so as to provide that an increase of benefit may be paid in all cases if the wife's weekly earnings from any gainful occupation do not exceed forty shillings. 



The Industrial Injuries Joint Authority in exercise of powers conferred by sections 18(1), 23 (1) and 30 of the National Insurance ( Industrial Injuries) Act, 1946(b), and the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance, in exercise of powers conferred by section 35 (1) of the said Act (as amended by sections 3 (5) and 6(6) of the National Insurance Act, 1957(c) ), section 3 (2) of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act, 1953(d) and sections 6(3) and 9 (1) of the said Act of 1957 , and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following regulations:—

