Social Security Act (Cap. 318), article 70

70. Subject to the provisions of this Act, a person who marries on or after the commencement date of this Act, and who was an employed person or a self-employed or self-occupied person for at least six months at any time prior to his marriage and is ordin arily resident in Malta shall be entitled, by giving notice in writin g to the Director, to receive a lump sum payment in accordance with Part III of the Fourteenth Schedule to this Act by way of a Marriage Grant: Provided that a person who legally contracts marriage on more than one occasion shall be entitled to a Marriage Grant in respect of each such marriage on condition that between one marriage and another he was an employed person or a self- employed or self-occupied per son for at least six months. Maternity Benefit or Maternity Leave Benefit. Re-numbered by: XXIV . 1993.2. Amended by: V . 2012.29; XIII. 2015.86.