MATERNITY BENEFIT-LABOUR ACT 2006 - ACT 47
47. Procedure regarding payment of maternity benefit : (1) Any pregnant woman entitled to maternity benefit under this act may, on any day, give notice either orally or in writing to her employer that she expects to be confined within eight weeks next following and may therein nominate a person for purposes of receiving payment of maternity benefit in case of her death.
(2) Any woman who has not given such notice and has been delivered of a child, shall within seven days, give similar notice to her employer that she has given birth to a child.
(3) When a notice referred to in sub-section (1) or (2) is received, the employer shall permit the women to absent herself from workfrom the day following the date of notice in the case mentioned in sub-section (1); form the day of delivery in the case mentioned in sub-section (2) until eight weeks after the day of delivery.
(4) An employer shall pay maternity benefit to a woman entitled thereto in such one of the following ways as the woman desire, namely :
(a) for eight weeks, within three working days of the production of a certificate signed by registered medical practitioner stating that the woman is expected to be confined within eight weeks of the date of the certificate, and for the remainder of the period for which she is entitled to maternity benefit under this act within three working days of the production of proof that she has given birth to a child; or (b) for the said period up to and including the day of delivery, within three working days of the production of proof that she has given birth to a child, and for the remainder of the said period, within eight weeks of the production of such proof; or (c) for the whole of the said period, within three working days of the production of proof that she has given birth to a child: Provided that a woman shall not be entitled to any maternity benefit or any part thereof, the payment of which is dependent upon the production of proof under this sub-section that she has given birth to a child, unless such proof is produced within three month s of the day of her delivery.
(5) The proof required to be produced under sub-section (4) shall be either a certified extract
from a birth register under the births and deaths registration act, 2004 (XXIX of 2004) or a certificate signed by a registered medical practitioner or such other proof as may be accepted by the employer.
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