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Subject to the provisions of this Act, every woman employed in a factory or a plantation shall be entitled to, and her employer shall be liable for, the payment of maternity benefit in respect of the period of six weeks preceding the expected day of her deli- very and six weeks immediately following the day of her delivery : (1) Provided that a woman shall not he entitled to such maternity benefit unless she has worked in any factory or plantation of the employer from whom she claims maternity benefit for not less than one hundred and fifty days in the twelve months immediately preceding the expected day of her delivery : Provided further that a woman shall not be entitled to such maternity benefit if she has not— , (a) permitted herself to be medically examined as required in sub-section (1) of section 6, or (b) during the period which extends from the commencement of the six weeks immediate- ly preceding the expected day of her delivery to the day of her delivery and during the six weeks immediately following the day of her delivery attended or permitted herself to be treated in any clinic or hospital, or permitted herself to be treated by any medical practitioner or nurse as required in sub-section (2) of section 6: Provided ftirther that non-compliance by the woman with the provisions of sub-section (2) of section 6 before the day of her delivery shall not disentitle her to maternity benefit if the medical practitioner referred to in sub-section (3) of section 6 certifies that in his opinion such non-compliance was due to premature delivery or-to a bona fide miscalculation on the part of the woman as to the state of advancement of her pregnancy. - The West Bengal Maternity Benefit (Tea Estates) _3 Act, 1948. XXXIII of 1948.1 (Sections 5-7.)