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Amendment of section 20 of Act of 1952 (maternity allowance). 
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17.—(1) Section 20 of the Act of 1952, which provides for maternity allowance, is hereby amended by the insertion after subsection (5) of the following subsection: 
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“(6) For the purposes of this section, a Sunday shall not in any week be treated as a day of entitlement to a maternity allowance and, accordingly, the amount payable by way of such allowance for any other day of a week shall be one-sixth of the appropriate weekly rate.”. 
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