2. Section 18B of the Shop and Office Employees (Regulation of Employment and Remuneration) Act, (inserted by Act No. 60 of 1957) and amended by Act No. 53 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 female employee to whom this Part applies, shall, if she is confined, be entitled to take and shall take leave for a period of
| | | (a) seventy days commencing on the date of her confinement, if the confinement results in the issue of a live child, and such employee has, at the date of such confinement, no child or has one child; and |
| (b) twenty-eight days commencing on the date of her confinement
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| (b) in subsection (3) of that section by the substitution for the words" period of leave referred to in, subsection (2) ", of the words" period of leave referred to in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of subsection (2) " ; and |
| (c) by the addition immediately after subsection (3) of that section of the following subsection:
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts