2. Section 4 of the Maternity Benefits Ordinance, hereinafter referred to as the " principal enactment " is hereby amended as follows : -
| (1) in subsection (1) of that section, by the substitution, for the expression " of the notice required by section 7 (2). ", of the expression. " of her confinement. " ; |
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| (2) by the insertion, immediately after subsection (1) of that section, of the following new subsection : -
| | " (1A) For the purpose of reckoning the one hundred and fifty days referred to in subsection (1), a woman worker shall be deemed to have worked on-
| | | (a) the days on which she was not provided with work by her employer ; |
| (b) the holidays to which she was entitled under any written law ; |
| (c) the days of her absence on leave granted by her employer or allowed by or under any written law ; |
| (d) the days of her absence due to any injury to her caused by, or arising out of, or in the course of, her employment; |
| (e) the days of her absence due to any occupational disease specified in Schedule III of the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance; and |
| (f) the days, not exceeding thirty, of her absence due to any strike or lockout that is not illegal." ; and |
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| (3) in subsection (2) of that section, by the substitution, for the words " any shop, mine, estate or factory ", of the words " any mine, estate, factory or prescribed establishment". |
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