| MATERNITY
BENEFIT ACT, 1961
1. Short title, extent and commencement
2. Application of Act
3. Definitions
4. Employment of, or work by women prohibited during certain
periods
5. Right to payment of maternity benefits
16[5A.
Continuance of payment of maternity benefit in certain
cases
15[5B.
Payment of maternity benefit in certain cases
6. Notice of claim for maternity benefit and payment thereof
7. Payment of maternity benefit in case of death of a woman
8. Payment of medical bonus
18[9. Leave for miscarriage, etc.
10[9A. Leave with wages for tubectomy operation
10. Leave for illness arising out of pregnancy, delivery,
premature birth of child, 19[miscarriage,
medical termination of pregnancy or tubectomy operation]
11. Nursing breaks
12. Dismissal during absence of pregnancy
13. No deduction of wages in certain cases
14. Appointment of Inspectors
15. Powers and duties of Inspectors
16. Inspectors to be public servants
17. Power of Inspector to direct payments to be made
18. Forfeiture of maternity benefit
19. Abstract of Act and rules thereunder to be exhibited
20. Registers, etc.
4[21. Penalty for contravention of Act by employer
22. Penalty for obstructing Inspector
21[23. Cognizance of offences
24. Protection of action taken in good faith
25. Power of Central Government to give directions
26. Power to exempt establishments
27. Effect of laws and agreements inconsistent with this
Act
28. Power to make rules
29. Amendment of Act 69 of 1951
30. Repeal
Foot Notes
An
Act to regulate the employment of women in certain establishments
for certain period before and after child-birth and
to provide for maternity benefit and certain other benefits
Be it
enacted by Parliament in the Twelfth Year of the Republic
of India as follows: -
1.
Short title, extent and commencement
(1) This Act may be called the Maternity Benefit Act,
1961.
(2) It extends to the whole of India. l[*
* *]
(3) It shall come into force on such date2
as may be notified in this behalf in the Official Gazette-
3[(a) in relation to mines and to any other establishment
wherein persons are employed for the exhibition of equestrian,
acrobatic and other performances, by the Central Government;
and ]
(b) in relation to other establishments in a State,
by the State Government.
2.
Application of Act
4[(1) It applies, in the first instance-
(a) to every establishment being a factory, mine or
plantation including any such establishment belonging
to government and to every establishment wherein persons
are employed for the exhibition of equestrian, acrobatic
and other performances;
(b) to every shop or establishment within the meaning
of any law for the time being in force in relation to
shops and establishments in a State, in which ten or
more persons are employed, or were employed, on any
day of the preceding twelve months:]
PROVIDED that the State Government may, with the approval
of the Central Government, after giving not less than
two months' notice of its intention of so doing, by
notification in the Official Gazette, declare that all
or any of the provisions of this Act shall apply also
to any other establishment or class of establishments,
industrial, commercial, agricultural or otherwise.
(2) 5[Save as otherwise provided in 6[sections
5A and 5B] nothing contained in this Act] shall apply
to any factory or other establishment to which the provisions
of the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 (34 of 1948),
apply for the time being.
3.
Definitions
In this
Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
(a) "appropriate government" means,
in relation to an establishment being a mine, 7[or
an establishment where in persons are employed for the
exhibition of equestrian, acrobatic and other performances],
the Central Government and in relation to any other
establishment, the State Government;
(b) "child" includes a still-born child;
(c) "delivery" means the birth of a
child;
(d) "employer" means-
(i) in relation to an establishment which is under the
control of the government a person or authority appointed
by the government for the supervision and control of
employees or where no person or authority is so appointed,
the head of the department;
(ii) in relation to an establishment under any local
authority, the person appointed by such authority for
the supervision and control of employees or where no
person is so appointed, the chief executive officer
of the local authority;
(iii) in any other case, the person who, or the authority
which, has the ultimate control over the affairs of
the establishment and where the said affairs are entrusted
to any other person whether called a manager, managing
director, managing agent, or by any other name, such
person;
7[(e) "establishment" means-
(i) a factory;
(ii) a mine;
(iii) a plantation;
(iv) an establishment wherein persons are employed for
the exhibition of equestrian, acrobatic and other performance;
8[***]
9[(iva) a shop or establishment; or]
(v) an establishment to which the provisions of this
Act have been declared under sub-section (1) of section
2 to be applicable;]
(f) "factory" means a factory as defined
in clause (m) of section 2 of the Factories Act, 1948
(63 of 1948);
(g) "inspector" means an Inspector appointed
under section 14;
(h) "maternity benefit" means the payment referred to
in sub-section (1) of section 5;
10[(ha) "medical termination
of pregnancy" means the termination of pregnancy permissible
under the provisions of Medical Termination of Pregnancy
Act, 1971;]
(i) "mine" means a mine as defined in clause (j) of
section (2) of the Mines Act, 1952 (35 of 1952);
(j) "miscarriage" means expulsion of
the contents of a pregnant uterus at any period prior
to or during the twenty-sixth week of pregnancy but
does not include any miscarriage, the causing of which
is punishable under the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860);
(k) "plantation" means a plantation
as defined in clause (f) of section 2 of the Plantations
Labour Act, 1951 (69 of 1951);
(l) "prescribed" means prescribed by
rule made under this Act;
(m) "State Government", in relation
to a Union territory, means the Administrator thereof;
(n) "wages" means all remuneration paid
or payable in cash to a woman, if the terms of the contract
of employment, express or implied, were fulfilled and
includes-
(1) such cash allowances (including dearness allowance
and house rent allowances) as a woman is for the
time being entitled to,
(2) incentive bonus, and
(3) the money value of the concessional supply of foodgrains
and other articles but does not include-
(i) any bonus other than incentive bonus;
(ii) over-time earnings and any deduction or payment
made on account of fines;
(iii) any contribution paid or payable by the employer
to any pension fund or provident fund or for the benefit
of the woman under any law for the time being in force;
and
(iv) any gratuity payable on the termination of service;
(o) "woman" means a woman employed,
whether directly or through any agency, for wages in
any establishment.
4.
Employment of, or work by women prohibited during certain
periods
(1) No employer shall knowingly employ a woman in any
establishment during the six weeks immediately following
the day of her delivery, 11[miscarriage or
medical termination of pregnancy].
(2) No woman shall work in any establishment during
the six weeks immediately following the day of her delivery
11[miscarriage or medical termination of
pregnancy].
(3) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 6,
no pregnant woman shall, on a request being made by
her in this behalf, be required by her employer to do
during the period specified in sub-section (4) any work
which is of an arduous nature or which involves long
hours of standing, or which in any way is likely to
interfere with her pregnancy or the normal development
of the foetus, or is likely to cause her miscarriage
or otherwise to adversely affect her health.
(4) The period referred to in sub-section (3) shall
be-
(a) the period of one month immediately preceding the
period of six weeks, before the date of her expected
delivery;
(b) any period during the said period of six weeks for
which the pregnant woman does not avail of leave of
absence under section 6.
5.
Right to payment of maternity benefits
4[(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, every
woman shall be entitled to, and her employer shall be
liable for, the payment of maternity benefit at the
rate of the average daily wage for the period of her
actual absence, that is to say, the period immediately
preceding the day of her delivery, the actual day of
her delivery and any period immediately following that
day.]
Explanation: For the purpose of this sub-section,
the average daily wage means the average of the woman's
wages payable to her for the days on which she has worked
during the period of three calendar months immediately
preceding the date from which she absents herself on
account of maternity, 12[the minimum rate
of wage fixed or revised under the Minimum Wages Act,
1948 (11 of 1948) or ten rupees, whichever is the highest].
(2) No woman shall be entitled to maternity benefit
unless she has actually worked in an establishment of
the employer from whom she claims maternity benefit,
for a period of not less than 13[eighty days]
in the twelve months immediately preceding the date
of her expected delivery:
PROVIDED that the qualifying period of 13[eighty
days] aforesaid shall not apply to a woman who has immigrated
into the State of Assam and was pregnant at the time
of the immigration.
Explanation : For the purpose of calculating under
this sub-section the days on which a woman has actually
worked in the establishment, 14[the days
for which she has been laid off or was on holidays declared
under any law for the time being in force to be holidays
with wages] during the period of twelve months immediately
preceding the date of her expected delivery shall be
taken into account.
15[(3) The maximum period for which any woman
shall be entitled to maternity benefit shall be twelve
weeks of which not more than six weeks shall precede
the date of her expected delivery:]
PROVIDED that where a woman dies during this period,
the maternity benefit shall be payable only for the
days up to and including the day of her death:
15[PROVIDED FURTHER that where a woman, having
been delivered of a child, dies during her delivery
or during the period immediately following the date
of her delivery for which she is entitled for the maternity
benefit, leaving behind in either case the child, the
employer shall be liable for the maternity benefit for
that entire period but if the child also dies during
the said period, then, for the days up to and including
the date of the death of the child.]
16[5A. Continuance of payment of maternity benefit
in certain cases
Every
woman entitled to the payment of maternity benefit under
this Act shall, notwithstanding the application of the
Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 (34 of 1948), to
the factory or other establishment in which she is employed,
continue to be so entitled until she becomes qualified
to claim maternity benefit under section 50 of that
Act.]
15[5B. Payment of maternity benefit in certain
cases
Every
woman-
(a) who is employed in a factory or other establishment
to which the provisions of the Employees' State Insurance
Act, 1948 (34 of 1948), apply;
(b) whose wages (excluding remuneration for over-time
work) for a month exceed the amount specified in sub-clause
(b) of clause (9) of section 2 of that Act; and
(c) who fulfils the conditions specified in sub-section
(2) of section 5,
shall
be entitled to the payment of maternity benefit under
this Act.]
6.
Notice of claim for maternity benefit and payment thereof
(1) Any woman employed in an establishment and entitled
to maternity benefit under the provisions of this Act
may give notice in writing in such form as may be prescribed,
to her employer, stating that her maternity benefit
and any other amount to which she may be entitled under
this Act may be paid to her or to such person as she
may nominate in the notice and that she will not work
in any establishment during the period for which she
receives maternity benefit.
(2) In the case of a woman who is pregnant, such notice
shall state the date from which she will be absent from
work, not being a date earlier than six weeks from the
date of her expected delivery.
(3) Any woman who has not given the notice when she
was pregnant may give such notice as soon as possible
after the delivery.
4[(4) On receipt of the notice, the employer shall
permit such woman to absent herself from the establishment
during the period for which she receives the maternity
benefit.]
(5) The amount of maternity benefit for the period preceding
the date of her expected delivery shall be paid in advance
by the employer to the woman on production of such proof
as may be prescribed that the woman is pregnant, and
the amount due for the subsequent period shall be paid
by the employer to the woman within forty-eight hours
of production of such proof as may be prescribed that
the woman has been delivered of a child.
(6) The failure to give notice under this section shall
not disentitle a woman to maternity benefit or any other
amount under this Act if she is otherwise entitled to
such benefit or amount and in any such case an Inspector
may either of his own motion or on an application made
to him by the woman, order the payment of such benefit
or amount within such period as may be specified in
the order.
7. Payment of
maternity benefit in case of death of a woman
If a
woman entitled to maternity benefit or any other amount
under this Act, dies before receiving such maternity
benefit or amount, or where the employer is liable for
maternity benefit under the second proviso to sub-section
(3) of section 5, the employer shall pay such benefit
or amount to the person nominated by the woman in the
notice given under section 6 and in case there is no
such nominee, to her legal representative.
8. Payment of
medical bonus
Every
woman entitled to maternity benefit under this Act shall
also be entitled to receive from her employer a medical
bonus, of 17[two hundred and fifty rupees],
if no pre-natal confinement and post-natal care is provided
for by the employer free of charge.
18[9. Leave for miscarriage, etc.
In case
of miscarriage or medical termination of pregnancy,
a woman shall, on production of such proof as may be
prescribed, be entitled to leave with wages at the rate
of maternity benefit, for a period of six weeks immediately
following the day of her miscarriage or, as the case
may be, her medical termination of pregnancy.]
10[9A. Leave with wages for tubectomy operation
In case
of tubectomy operation, a woman shall, on production
of such proof as may be prescribed, be entitled to leave
with wages at the rate of maternity benefit for a period
of two weeks immediately following the day of her tubectomy
operation.]
10. Leave for
illness arising out of pregnancy, delivery, premature
birth of child, 19[miscarriage, medical termination
of pregnancy or tubectomy operation]
A woman
suffering from illness arising out of pregnancy, delivery,
premature birth of child, [miscarriage, medical termination
of pregnancy or tubectomy operation] shall, on production
of such proof as may be prescribed, be entitled, in
addition to the period of absence allowed to her under
section 6, or, as the case may be, under section 9,
to leave with wages at the rate of maternity benefit
for a maximum period of one month.
11. Nursing
breaks
Every
woman delivered of a child who returns to duty after
such delivery shall, in addition to the interval for
rest allowed to her, be allowed in the course of her
daily work two breaks of the prescribed duration for
nursing the child until the child attains the age of
fifteen months.
12. Dismissal
during absence of pregnancy
(1) When a woman absents herself from work in accordance
with the provisions of this Act, it shall be unlawful
for her employer to discharge or dismiss her during
or on account of such absence or to give notice of discharge
or dismissal on such a day that the notice will expire
during such absence, or to vary to her disadvantage
any of the conditions of her service.
(2) (a) The discharge or dismissal of a woman at any
time during her pregnancy, if the woman but for such
discharge or dismissal would have been entitled to maternity
benefit or medical bonus referred to in section 8, shall
not have the effect of depriving her of the maternity
benefit or medical bonus:
PROVIDED that where the dismissal
is for any prescribed gross misconduct, the employer
may, by order in writing communicated to the woman,
deprive her of the maternity benefit or medical bonus
or both.
4[(b) Any woman deprived of maternity benefit
or medical bonus, or both, or discharged or dismissed
during or on account of her absence from work in accordance
with the provisions of this Act, may, within sixty days
from the date on which order of such deprivation or
discharge or dismissal is communicated to her, appeal
to such authority as may be prescribed, and the decision
of that authority on such appeal, whether the woman
should or should not be deprived of maternity benefit
or medical bonus, or both, or discharged or dismissed
shall be final.]
(c) Nothing contained in this sub-section shall effect
the provisions contained in sub-section (1).
13. No deduction
of wages in certain cases
No deduction
from the normal and usual daily wages of a woman entitled
to maternity benefit under the provisions of this Act
shall be made by reason only of-
(a) the nature of work assigned to her by virtue of
the provisions contained in sub-section (3) of section
4; or
(b) breaks for nursing the child allowed to her under
the provisions of section 11.
14. Appointment
of Inspectors
The appropriate
government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
appoint such officers as it thinks fit to be Inspectors
for the purposes of this Act and may define the local
limits of the jurisdiction within which they shall exercise
their functions under this Act.
15. Powers and
duties of Inspectors
An Inspector
may, subject to such restrictions or conditions as may
be prescribed, exercise all or any of the following
powers, namely:-
(a) enter at all reasonable times with such assistants,
if any, being person in the service of the government
or any local or other public authority, as he thinks
fit, any premises or place where women are employed
or work is given to them in an establishment, for the
purposes of examining any register, records and notices
required to be kept or exhibited by or under this Act
and require their production for inspection;
(b) examine any person whom he finds in any premises
or place and who, he has reasonable cause to believe,
is employed in the establishment;
PROVIDED that no person shall be compelled under this
section to answer any question or give any evidence
tending to incriminate himself;
(c) require the employer to give information regarding
the names and addresses of women employed, payments
made to them and applications or notices received from
them under this Act; and
(d) take copies of any registers and records or notices
or any portions thereof.
16.
Inspectors to be public servants
Every
Inspector appointed under this Act shall be deemed to
be a public servant within the meaning of section 21
of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).
17.
Power of Inspector to direct payments to be made
4[(1) Any woman claiming that-
(a) maternity benefit or any other amount to which she
is entitled under this Act and any person claiming that
payment due under section 7 has been improperly withheld;
(b) her employer has discharged or dismissed her during
or on account of her absence from work in accordance
with the provisions of this Act,
may make
a complaint to the Inspector.
(2) The Inspector may, of his own motion or on receipt
of a complaint referred to in sub-section (1), make
an inquiry or cause an inquiry to be made and if satisfied
that-
(a) payment has been wrongfully withheld, may direct
the payment to be made in accordance with his orders;
(b) she has been discharged or dismissed during or on
account of her absence from work in accordance with
the provisions of this Act, may pass such orders as
are just and proper according to the circumstances of
the case.]
(3) Any person aggrieved by the decision of the Inspector
under sub-section (2) may, within thirty days from the
date on which such decision is communicated to such
person, appeal to the prescribed authority.
(4) The decision of the prescribed authority where an
appeal has been preferred to it under sub-section (3)
or of the Inspector where no such appeal has been preferred,
shall be final.
4[(5) Any amount payable under this section shall
be recoverable by the Collector on a certificate issued
for that amount by the Inspector as an arrear of land
revenue.]
18.
Forfeiture of maternity benefit
If a
woman works in any establishment after she has been
permitted by her employer to absent herself under the
provisions of section 6 for any period during such authorised
absence, she shall forfeit her claim to the maternity
benefit for such period.
19.
Abstract of Act and rules thereunder to be exhibited
An abstract
of the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder
in the language or languages of the locality shall be
exhibited in a conspicuous place by the employer in
every part of the establishment in which women are employed.
20.
Registers, etc.
Every
employer shall prepare and maintain such registers,
records and muster-rolls and in such manner as may be
prescribed.
4[21. Penalty for contravention of Act by employer
(1) If any employer fails to pay any amount of maternity
benefit to a woman entitled under this Act or discharges
or dismisses such woman during or on account of her
absence from work in accordance with the provisions
of this Act, he shall be punishable with imprisonment
which shall not be less than three months but which
may extend to one year and with fine which shall not
be less than two thousand rupees but which may extend
to five thousand rupees:
PROVIDED that the court may, for sufficient reasons
to be recorded in writing, impose a sentence of imprisonment
for a lesser term or fine only in lieu of imprisonment.
(2) If any employer contravenes the provisions of this
Act or the rules made thereunder, he shall, if no other
penalty is elsewhere provided by or under this Act for
such contravention, be punishable with imprisonment
which may extend to one year, or with fine which may
extend to five thousand rupees, or with both:
PROVIDED that where the contravention is of any provision
regarding maternity benefit or regarding payment of
any other amount and such maternity benefit or amount
has not already been recovered, the court shall, in
addition, recover such maternity benefit or amount as
if it were a fine and pay the same to the person entitled
thereto.]
22.
Penalty for obstructing Inspector
Whoever
fails to produce on demand by the Inspector any register
or document in his custody kept in pursuance of this
Act or the rules made thereunder or conceals or prevents
any person from appearing before or being examined by
an Inspector shall be punishable with imprisonment which
may extend to 20[one year], or with fine
which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both.
21[23. Cognizance of offences
(1) Any aggrieved woman, an office-bearer of a trade
union registered under the Trade Unions Act, 1926 (16
of 1926) of which such woman is a member or a voluntary
organisation registered under the Societies Registration
Act, 1860 (21 of 1860) or an Inspector, may file a complaint
regarding the commission of an offence under this Act
in any court of competent jurisdiction and no such complaint
shall be filed after the expiry of one year from the
date on which the offence is alleged to have been committed.
(2) No court inferior to that of a Metropolitan Magistrate
or a Magistrate of the first class shall try any offence
under this Act.]
24.
Protection of action taken in good faith
No suit,
prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against
any person for anything which is in good faith done
or intended to be done in pursuance of this Act or of
any rule or order made thereunder.
25.
Power of Central Government to give directions
The Central
Government may give such directions as it may deem necessary
to a State Government regarding the carrying into execution
of the provisions of this Act and the State Government
shall comply with such directions.
26.
Power to exempt establishments
If the
appropriate government is satisfied that having regard
to an establishment or a class of establishments providing
for the grant of benefits which are not less favourable
than those provided in this Act, it is necessary so
to do, it may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
exempt, subject to such conditions and restrictions,
if any, as may be specified in the notification, the
establishment or class of establishments from the operation
of all or any of the provisions of this Act or of any
rule made thereunder.
27.
Effect of laws and agreements inconsistent with this
Act
(1) The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding
anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other
law or in the terms of any award, agreement or contract
of service, whether made before or after the coming
into force of this Act:
PROVIDED that where under any such award, agreement,
contract of service or otherwise, a woman is entitled
to benefits in respect of any matter which are more
favourable to her than those to which she would be entitled
under this Act, the woman shall continue to be entitled
to the more favourable benefits in respect of that matter,
notwithstanding that she is entitled to receive benefits
in respect of other matters under this Act.
(2) Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed
to preclude a woman from entering into an agreement
with her employer for granting her rights or privileges
in respect of any matter which are more favourable to
her than those to which she would be entitled under
this Act.
28.
Power to make rules
(1) The appropriate government may, subject to the condition
of previous publication and by notification in the Official
Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purpose of
this Act.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality
of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for-
(a) the preparation and maintenance of registers, records
and muster-rolls;
(b) the exercise of powers (including the inspection
of establishments) and the performance of duties by
Inspectors for the purposes of this Act;
(c) the method of payment of maternity benefit and other
benefits under this Act insofar as provision has not
been made therefor in this Act;
(d) the form of notices under section 6;
(e) the nature of proof required under the provisions
of this Act;
(f) the duration of nursing breaks referred to in section
11;
(g) acts which may constitute gross misconduct for purposes
of section 12;
(h) the authority to which an appeal under clause (b)
of sub-section (2) of section 12 shall lie; the form
and manner in which such appeal may be made and the
procedure to be followed in disposal thereof;
(i) the authority to which an appeal shall lie against
the decision of the Inspector under section 17; the
form and manner in which such appeal may be made and
the procedure to be followed in disposal thereof;
(j) the form and manner in which complaints may be made
to Inspectors under sub-section (1) of section 17 and
the procedure to be followed by them when making inquiries
or causing inquiries to be made under sub-section (2)
of that section;
(k) any other matter which is to be, or may be prescribed.
3[(3)
Every rule made by the Central Government under this
section shall be laid as soon as may be after it is
made, before each House of Parliament while it is in
session for a total period of thirty days which may
be comprised in one session or in two or more successive
sessions and if, before the expiry of the session immediately
following the session or the successive sessions, aforesaid
both Houses agree in making any modification in the
rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be
made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in
such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may
be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment
shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything
previously done under that rule.]
29.
Amendment of Act 69 of 1951
In section
32 of the Plantations Labour Act, 1951-
(a) in sub-section (1), the letter and brackets "(a)"
before the words "in the case of sickness", the word
"and" after the words "sickness allowances" and clause
(b) shall be omitted;
(b) in sub-section (2), the words "or maternity" shall
be omitted.
30.
Repeal
On the
application of this Act-
(i) to mines, the Mines Maternity Benefit Act, 1941
(19 of 1941); and
(ii) to factories situate in the Union territory of
Delhi, Bombay Maternity Benefit Act, 1929 (Bombay Act
VII of 1929); as in force in that territory, shall stand
repealed.
1 The
words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted
by Act No. 51 of 1970, w.e.f. 1st. September, 1971.
2 1st.
November, 1963, vide Notification No. SO 2920, dated
5th. October, 1963, Gazette of India.
3 Substituted
by Act No. 52 of 1973 w.e.f. 1st. March, 1975.
4 Substituted
by Act No. 61 of 1988 w.e.f. 10th. January, 1989.
5 Substituted
by Act No. 21 of 1972, for the words "Nothing contained
in this Act", 1st. June, 1972.
6 Substituted
for the word and figures "section 5A" by Act No. 53
of 1976, w.e.f. 1st. May, 1976.
7 Inserted
by Act No. 52 of 1973 w.e.f. 1st. March, 1975.
8 Word
"or" omitted by Act No. 61 of 1988 w.e.f. 10th. January,
1989.
9 Inserted
by Act No. 61 of 1988 w.e.f. 10th. January, 1989.
10 Inserted
by Act No. 29 of 1995 w.e.f. 1st. February, 1996.
11 Substituted
by Act No. 29 of 1995, for the words "or her miscarriage"
w.e.f. 1st. February, 1996.
12 Substituted
by Act No. 61 of 1988 for the words "or one rupee a
day" w.e.f. 10th. January, 1989.
13 Substituted
for the words "one hundred and sixty days" by Act No.
61 of 1988 w.e.f. 10th. January, 1989.
14 Substituted
for the words "the days for which she has been laid
of" by Act No. 61 of 1988 w.e.f. 10th. January, 1989.
15 Inserted
by Act No. 53 of 1976. w.e.f. 1st. May, 1976.
16 Inserted
by Act No. 21 of 1972, w.e.f. 1st. June, 1972.
17 Substituted
for the words "twenty-five rupees" by Act No. 61 of
1988 w.e.f. 10th. January, 1989.
18 Substituted
by Act No. 29 of 1995 w.e.f. 1st. February, 1996.
19 Substituted
by Act No. 29 of 1995 for the words "or miscarriage"
w.e.f. 1st. February, 1996.
20 Substituted
by Act No. 61 of 1988 for the words "three months"w.e.f.
10th. January, 1989.
21 Substituted
ibid.
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