Maternity Benefits (Amendment) Act (No. 52 of 1981)

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Amendment of section 5 of principal enactment. [ 3, 52 of 1981]

3. Section 5 of the principal enactment the is hereby amended as follows :"

(1) by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section, and the substitution therefor of the following subsection:"

	"(1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (3) and (4), the employer of a woman worker shall pay to such worker maternity benefit at the prescribed rate for the entirety of the period of two weeks immediately preceding her confinement and of the period of four weeks immediately following her confinement:

(2) by the repeal of subsection (2) thereof.