MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE
(Legislative Department)
New Delhi, the 28th March, 2017/Chaitra 7, 1939 (Saka)
The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 27th March, 2017, and is hereby published for general information:—
THE MATERNITY BENEFIT (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2017
NO. 6 OF 2017
[27th March, 2017.]
A n Act further to amend the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
1. (1) This Act may be called the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint :
Provided that different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision.