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(1) A widowed mother’s allowance shall not be reduced Amendments under section 17 (3) of the National Insurance Act 1946 (which of National applies an earnings rule to the allowance) — ‘Act 1946, (a) to less than 26 shillings, or (b) where the allowance is payable by virtue of the widow’s having a family (that is, where payable under subsection (1) (b) (i) of the said section 17) to less than— (i) 26 shillings, plus (ii) the difference between the two weekly rates of widowed mother’s allowance as set out in Schedule 2 Part I column 2 of the said Act of 1946, plus (iii) any increase in the allowance in respect of any child of the family other than the elder or eldest. (2) In the said subsection (1) (b) (i) (which, as amended by Schedule 4 paragraph 2 of the National Insurance Act 1960, makes the widowed mother’s allowance conditional in certain cases on the widow contributing to the cost of providing for a child at not less than 25 shillings a week) for the words “at the rate of 25 shillings a week or more” there shall be substituted the words “‘ at a weekly rate not less than the difference between the two weekly rates of widowed mother’s allowance as set out in the second column of Part I of the Second Schedule to this Act”. (3) So much of the said subsection (1) (b) (i) and of section 19 (3) proviso of the Industrial Injuries Act as authorises the making of regulations reducing the amount of an allowance or payments under either of those sections shall cease to have effect. (4) In section 24 (1) of the said Act of 1946 (under which the increase of benefit in respect of a wife is not payable if her weekly earnings exceed 40 shillings) for the reference to 40 shillings there shall be substituted a reference to the amount of the increase as set out in Schedule 2 Part I column 5 of that Act and, accordingly, for the words “ 40 shillings” there shall be substituted the words “‘ that amount ”.