Section 90

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Payment of allowance to nominee 91.

A female employee may nominate some other person to whom the maternity allowance may be paid on her behalf and any payment of the maternity allowance made to the person so nominated shall, for the purposes of this Ordinance, be deemed to be a payment to the female employee herself.

[Sub. Act A1237.]

Notice of termination of employment 92.

When a female worker absents herself from work in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter her employer shall not give her notice of termination of employment during such absence or so that the notice will expire during such absence.

Restriction on dismissal of female employee after eligible period 92A.—

(1)

Where a female employee remains absent from her work after the expiration of the eligible period as a result of illness certified by a registered medical practitioner to arise out of her pregnancy and confinement and to render her unfit for her work, it shall be an offence, until her absence exceeds a period of ninety days after the expiration of the eligible period, for her employer to terminate her services or give her notice of termination of service.