2. Section 18B of the Shop and Office Employees (Regulation of Employment and Remuneration) Act (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the " principal enactment") is hereby amended in subsection (2) of that section as follows:"
| (a) by the repeal of subsection(1) of that section ,and the substitution therefor of the following subsection:-
| | "(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (3), a female employee to whom this Part applies shall, upon giving notice to her employer that she expects to be confined within fourteen days from the date specified in the notice, be entitled to leave for the period commencing on that date and ending on the day immediately preceding the date of her confinement, and her employer shall allow such leave. "; and | | |
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| (b) by the insertion, immediately after subsection (2) thereof, of the following subsection:"
| | " (3) Where a female employee to whom this Part applies has worked for her employer on any number of days during the period of fourteen days referred to in subsection (1), she shall be entitled to take leave, for such number of days after her confinement, commencing on the day immediately after the date on which the period of leave referred to in subsection (2) ends and the employer shall allow such leave. ". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts