Act No. 50 / 1987 Coll.

Law on Amendments to the Maternity Act

Valid Effective from 01.07.1987
50
THE LAW
of 23 June 1987
on amendments to the Maternity Contributions Act
The Federal Assembly of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic decided on this law:
Čl. I
Act No. 107 / 1971 Coll., on maternity allowance, as amended by the legal measure of the Bureau of the Federal Assembly No. 8 / 1982 Coll., on increased maternity allowance and changes in sickness insurance, and Act No. 110 / 1984 Coll., on amendments to the Law on maternity allowance, are amended and supplemented as follows:
1. Sections 2 and 3, including the title, read:
"Conditions of entitlement and duration of maternity allowance
§ 2
(1) A woman is entitled to a maternity allowance for a child under one year of age.
(2) A woman shall be entitled to a maternity allowance for a child under the age of two, if she is a child born before 1 January 1988, and for a child under the age of three, if she is a child born after 31 December 1987, provided that:
(a) caring for another child who is old enough to complete compulsory education or a child under 26 who is continuously preparing for a future profession of study or prescribed training; 1) or is disabled and requires permanent care; or
(b) is an invalidity child requiring permanent care; or
(c) it is a child who has been taken into permanent care replacing maternity care; or
(d) she is a single, widowed, divorced or for other serious reasons a lonely woman who does not live with a species; or
(e) is a woman whose spouse is continuously preparing for a future occupation through study or prescribed training, (1) or is a beneficiary of an invalidity pension and is not employed.
(3) Entitlement to the maternity allowance referred to in the preceding paragraphs shall be granted to a woman only if:
(a) care for the child to whom the maternity allowance is due on a full day-long basis, if, before his birth, he has undergone regular care of pregnant women in medical institutions, the child is a national citizen of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and lives on its territory; and
(b) properly nurtures all other children (paragraph 2 (a)) and these children live in the territory of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
§ 3
For the purposes of this Act, a child shall be understood to be the child of a woman or of a child who has been taken into permanent care replacing maternity care. A child who has been taken into custody by decision of the competent authority, the child whose mother has died and the child of the spouse who has been entrusted to him by decision of the court shall be considered to be taken into permanent care as a foster child. '
2. In Paragraph 4 (3), the words "less than two years old 'are replaced by the words" on which the maternity allowance belongs' and the words "in the nursery 'are inserted after the words" in the nursery'.
3.
„§ 5
(1) If the maternity allowance is granted under Paragraph 2 (2) (a), it shall be due at the latest until the date on which the child reached the age of two or three, even if after the birth of the child another child died, completed compulsory education or preparation for the future occupation, reached the age of 26, ceased to be disabled or the need for permanent care ceased.
(2) If the child to whom the maternity allowance is granted is a child, or a woman, for health reasons, is in constitutional care for more than three months, the maternity allowance shall not be granted from the fourth month onwards. However, the competent authority (§ 11) may, for serious reasons, decide to continue to grant the maternity allowance.
§ 6
Maternity allowance and payment
(1) The maternity allowance shall be for the calendar month:
(a) 600 Ccsi, where a woman looks after one child to whom the maternity allowance belongs,
(b) 800 Kčs, where a woman looks after a child to whom the maternity allowance belongs, and at the same time takes care of at least two other children referred to in § 2 (2) (a);
(c) 900 Ccsi, where a woman takes care of two children to whom the maternity allowance belongs,
(d) 1300 CZK, if the woman is caring for three or more children to whom the maternity allowance belongs.
(2) Where there is a change in the number of children to whom the maternity allowance belongs and, where appropriate, taken into account for the purposes of determining the amount, the amount of the maternity allowance shall be adjusted as from the day following that change, according to the number of children to whom the woman continues to care; This is without prejudice to the provisions of Paragraph 5 (1).
(3) If the maternity allowance is payable only for part of a month, the daily amount shall be:
20 Cds of the sum of 600 Cds,
26 Cds of the sum of 800 Cds,
30 Cds of the sum of 900 Cds,
43 Cds out of 1300 Cds.
(4) The maternity allowance is paid monthly in arrears. "
4.
„§ 13a
Provision of a male contribution
(1) A single, widowed, divorced or for other serious reasons a lonely man who does not live with a partner also has the right to a contribution under this law.
(2) The institution referred to in Paragraph 14 may grant a contribution to the spouse of a woman who cannot, for serious reasons, care for the child.
(3) The other provisions of this law shall apply mutatis mutandis to the grant, amount and provision of the allowance. ';
Čl. II
Transitional provision
The maternity allowance shall be adjusted to the amount of CZK 800 (Article I No 3) without application from the date of application of this Act.
Čl. III
The Bureau of the Federal Assembly is hereby authorised to publish in the Collection of Laws the full text of Act No. 107 / 1971 Coll., on Maternity Contributions, as is apparent from the laws amending it and supplementing it.
Čl. IV
Efficacy
This Law shall take effect on 1 July 1987.
Husák v. r.
Indra v. r.
Strougal v. r.
1) § 1 and 2 of the Ordinance of the Central Council of Trade Unions No. 95 / 1968 Coll., on the grant of allowances for children in sickness insurance, as amended by the Ordinance of the Central Council of Trade Unions No. 78 / 1984 Coll.

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CitationAct No. 50 / 1987 Coll., on Amendments to the Act on Maternity Contributions
Regulation Type-
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CollectionCode of Laws
Date of Promulgation29.06.1987
Effective from01.07.1987
Effective until-
Status Valid
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