Cap. 318 Art. 70Marriage Grant.

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 ordinarily resident in Malta shall be entitled, by giving notice in writing 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 person for at least six months.