3. Section 5 of the principal enactment, as last amended by Act No. 52 of 1981, is hereby further amended by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor, of the following subsection :
| " (1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (3) and (4), the employer of a woman worker shall pay to such worker maternity benefit at the prescribed rate
| | (a) for the entirety of the period of two weeks immediately preceding the confinement and of the period of ten weeks immediately following her confinement if such confinement results in the issue of a live child, and such worker has, at the date of such confinement, no child or has one child; and | | |
| | (b) for the entirety of the period of two weeks immediately preceding the confinement and of the period of four weeks immediately following her confinement
| | | (i) if the confinement results in the issue of a live child, and such worker has, at the date of such confinement, two or more than two children; |
| (ii) if the confinement does not result in the issue of live child : |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts