Section 1 — Short title, extent and commencement.

1. Short title, extent and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Maternity Benefit               

Act, 1961. 

(2) It extends to the whole of India 
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(3) It shall come into force on such date
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 as may be notified in this behalf in the Official Gazette,— 

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[(a) in relation to mines and to any other establishment wherein persons are employed for the 

exhibition of equestrian, acrobatic and other performances, by the Central Government; and] 

(b) in relation to other establishments in a State, by the State Government.