4. Section 7 of the principal enactment, as last amended Amendment by Act No. 52 of 1981, is hereby further amended as follows :-
| (a) by the repeal of subsection (2) of that section, and the substitution therefor of the following subsection;
| | " (2) A woman worker who has been confined shall, within one week of her confinement give notice to her employer of the date on which she was confined and for the purpose of ascertaining the number of days she will be permitted to absent herself from the employment specify the number of children she has on such. date on which she was confined; " ; and | | |
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| (b) by the repeal of subsection (4) of that section, and the substitution therefore of the following subsection ; " (4) The employer shall on receipt of a notice from a woman worker under subsection (1) or subsection (2), permit that woman worker to absent herself from employment
| | (a) for two weeks immediately preceding, and ten weeks immediately following her confinement if the confinement results in the issue of a live child, and such woman has, at the date of such confinement, no child or has one child ; | | |
| | (b) for two weeks immediately preceding and four weeks immediately following her confinement
| | | (i) if the confinement results in the issue of a live child, and such woman has, at the date of such confinement, two or more than two children; |
| (ii) if the confinement does not result in the issue of a live child: |
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