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Section 7. Payment or maternity benefit in case of death of a woman

MATERNITY BENEFIT ACT, 1961

RepealedAll India (Central Act)

This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by Act 36 of 2020; it may still apply to matters that began before then.

7. Payment or maternity benefit in case of death of a woman. -- If a woman entitled to maternity benefit or any other amount under this Act, dies before receiving such maternity benefit or amount, or where the employer is liable for maternity benefit under the second proviso to sub-section (3) of section 5, the employer shall pay such benefit or amount to the person nominated by the woman in the notice given under section 6 and in case there is no such nominee, to her legal representative.