Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Notwithstanding anything contained in the Maternity Benefit 53 of 1961. Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to in this section as the said Act) the State Government may by notification direct that all or any of the provisions of the said Act or the rules made thereunder shall appy to an establishment wherein registered unprotected women workers are employed in any scheduled employment to which this Act applies; and for that purpose the workers concerned shall be deemed to be women within the meaning of the said Act; and in relation to such women, employer shall mean, where a Board makes the payment of wages to any such woman, the Board, and in any other case, the employer as defined in this Act; and on such application of the provision or provisions of the said Act or the rules made thereunder, an Inspector appointed under this Act shall be deemed to he an Inspector for the purpose of enforcement of such provision or provisions of the said Act or the rules made thereunder within the local limits of his jurisdiction.