Maternity Benefit Act,1961
2. Application of Act
4 [(1) It applies, in the first instance-
(a) to every establishment being a factory,
mine or plantation including any such establishment belonging to government and
to every establishment wherein persons are employed for the exhibition of
equestrian, acrobatic and other performances;
(b) to every shop or establishment within the meaning
of any law for the time being in force in relation to shops and establishments
in a State, in which ten or more persons are employed, or were employed, on any
day of the preceding twelve months:]
PROVIDED that the State Government may, with the approval
of the Central Government, after giving not less than two months' notice of its
intention of so doing, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare that
all or any of the provisions of this Act shall apply also to any other
establishment or class of establishments, industrial, commercial, agricultural
or otherwise.
(2) 5[Save as otherwise provided in 6[sections
5A and 5B] nothing contained in this Act] shall apply to any factory or other
establishment to which the provisions of the Employees' State Insurance Act,
1948 (34 of 1948), apply for the time being.