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The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY

PART II—Section 1

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 61] NEW DELHI, SATURDAY, APRIL 3,1976/CHAITRA 14,1898

Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation.

MINISTRY OF LAW, JUSTICE AND COMPANY AFFAIRS

(Legislative Department)

New Delhi, the 3rd April, 1976/Chaitra 14, 1898 (Saka)

The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 3rd April, 1976, and is hereby published for general information: —

THE MATERNITY BENEFIT (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1976

No. 53 OF 1976

[3rd April 19761

An Act further to amend the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows: —

1. (1) This Act may be called the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 1976.

(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

Short title and com- mence- ment.

53 of 1961.to as the principal Act), in sub-section (2), for the word, figure and letter m e nt of ''section 5A". the words, figures and letters "sections 5A and 5 B" shall s e c t i o n ²- be substituted. (475)

Inser- tion of new section 6B.

"5B. 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;

Pay- ment of mater- nity bene- fit in certain cases.

(b) whose wages (excluding remuneration for overtime 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".

K. K. SUNDARAM,

Secy, to the Govt. of India.