Ms.Fulewar,
(Pardon me if I'm wrong).
I request all the seekers to give adequate info. about their, among other things, some of minimum details about themselves such as gender, state, nature of firm/industry/ office/estt.etc. at the time of raising queries itself so that learned members would be in a position to give suggestions straight away instead of avoidable extracting posts before start answering queries. For God's sack Pl.don't thing learned members are sitting idle to answer/expecting your queries, all of us are seriously engaged in their own routine and try to put best use of/share their knowledge/information for the good of others, free of cost. So spare us not to waste our times to extract relevant info.
Here is also, had Fulewar taken some pains to refer to the Maternity Act before hand itself it could have answered these queries clearly. As these are very fundamental aspects could have got the answers from/by reading the act itself. Ofcourse, expert opinions are available from members thru' their experience gained and references painstakingly collected & stored for some natural queries for which there available no ref. from the bare act. That apart,
I don't thing Maternity Act bars >40 females bearing a child, so age factor is not relevant. What is needed is to say what is applicable to your Estt., if ESI or the Maternity Act, Factories Act, Shops Act what matters w.r.t. to the status of your estt. which you haven't revealed.
There is no regn. involved under MA, but ESI Act requires, hence you should be aware of what act is applicable to your estt.
The bare act of the Maternity Benefit Act and other short notes are attached for you know more about the provisions of the Act.
Also Read more from this link:
https://www.citehr.com/572469-applic...016-a-pg2.html