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

Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Amendment of section 7 of the principal enactment. [ 4, 52 of 1981]

4. Section 7 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:"

(a) by the repeal of subsection (4) of that section, and the substitution therefor of the following subsection:"

	" (4) The employer shall, on receipt of a notice from a woman worker under subsection (1) or subsection (2), permit that woman worker to absent herself from employment for two weeks immediately preceding, and four weeks immediately following, her confinement:

(b) by repeal of subsection (5) of that section.