Clause 96

Every female workman shall be entitled to abstain from work during terms of four weeks each before and after confinement and in respect of such terms (hereinafter in this Part referred to as the “benefit period”) to receive from her employer a maternity allowance to be calculated as provided in subsection (2) of this section:Provided that a female workman shall not be entitled to such maternity allowance after her third confinement.

A female workman who has worked for an employer from whom she claims maternity benefit for not less than one hundred and eighty days within the period of one year immediately preceding the notice required under subsection (1) of section 100 of this Act shall be paid maternity allowance at the rate of four dollars a day or her ordinary rate of pay for a day, whichever is less, during the benefit period.

Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of this section a female workman who has worked in her employment on any day during the period of four weeks immediately preceding her confinement shall not be entitled to any maternity allowance for that day or for any part of that period which precedes that day.