Section 63
Payment of maternity benefit in case of death of a woman.
The Code on Social Security, 2020
About this Act
An Act to amend and consolidate the laws relating to social security with the goal to extend social security to all employees and workers either in the organised or unorganised or any other sectors and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
If a woman entitled to maternity
benefit or any other amount under this Chapter, dies before receiving such maternity benefit or amount, or
where the employer is liable for maternity benefit under the second proviso to sub-section (3) of section 60,
the employer shall pay such benefit or amount to the person nominated by the woman in the notice given
under section 62 and in case there is no such nominee, to her legal representative.