Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Any woman who claims or intends to claim maternity benefit under the provisions of this Act shall, on any day, give notice either orally in person or in writing to the employer of the factory or the plantation that she expects to be confined within one month and a half next following and submit at the same time to such employer the certificate referred to in sub-section (1) of section 6 and may nominate in the prescribed form a person for purposes of section 9. (2) When the notice and the certificate referred to in sub-section (1) are received the employer shall permit the woman -ho has given the notice to absent herself from work in the factory or plantation on and from the day following that on which such notice and certificate are received until the expiration of six weeks after the day of her delivery. (3) An employer shall pay .the maternity benefit as provided in section 5 to a woman entitled they eto under 'this Act in twelve equal weekly instalments and the payment of the first instalment thereof shall be made within seven days of the giving of the notice together with the certificate referred to in sub-section (1) by such woman. (4) If an employer is satisfied on the report of a medical practitioner or medical officer-in-charge of the clinic or hospital referred to in sub-section (2) of section 6 that a woman has ceased according to the provisions of section 4 to be entitled to maternity benefit such employer may discontinue the payment of mater- nity benefit payable to such woman under sub-section (3)- (5) Any woman who considers herself aggrieved at any cessation of payment of maternity benefit under sub-section (4) may, within thirty days of the date of payment of the last instalment of maternity benefit paid to her under sub-section (3), apply in the prescribed manner to the Inspector of Factories, West Bengal, who after giving both parties an opportunity of being heard may reject the application, or direct the employer to pay to the woman the remaining portion of the maternity benefit, as he deems fit. An appeal from the decision of the Inspector (4 Factories, West Bengal, shall, within thirty days thereof, lie in the prescribed manner to the Labour Commissioner, West Bengal, whose decision shall be final.