Skip to content
INDIA CODE 2.0
More
Recent and savedAboutCode or citation

Browse laws

Explore every subject in the shelf. Open an Act to read its text, amendments and the instruments recorded beneath its sections.

The collection includes real and labelled synthetic records. Connections and counts describe the records held.

Tree

Maternity Benefit Act: sections with instruments beneath them (0)

Text

Open at its own address /A10-0X8

Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 [A10-0X8]

As at 8 September 2026. Repealed on 21 November 2025 by Code on Social Security, 2020 [A10-2B9].

Dates: made 12 December 1961; in force 1 November 1963; ceased 21 November 2025. Gazette: Gazette of India, 1961. Band A.

Cite: Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 (53 of 1961) [A10-0X8]. Machine: A10-0X8.

Sections (1)

Section 5. Right to payment of maternity benefit [S10-242]

Made under

No recital of a power is printed.

Acted on by (1)

Repeals: Code on Social Security, 2020, 21 November 2025.

Sort rules. Subjects by name. Acts by year, then number. Sections in the order of the arrangement. Instruments by date, then number. Amendments by date. An instrument stands under the section its recital names; where the register resolved no section, it stands under No power resolved. Counts are the rows beneath.