Section 46:
Benefits.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the insured persons 1[their dependants or the
persons hereinafter mentioned, as the case may be,] shall be entitled to the following benefits,
namely:--
(a) periodical payments to any insured person in case of his sickness certified by a duly appointed
medical practitioner2[or by any other person possessing such qualifications and experience as the
Corporation may, by regulations, specify in this behalf] (hereinafter referred to as sickness benefit);
3[(b) periodical payments to an insured woman in case of confinement or mis-carriage or sickness
arising out of pregnancy, confinement, premature birth of child or mis-carriage, such woman being
certified to be eligible for such payments by an authority specified in this behalf by the regulations
(hereinafter referred to as maternity benefit;)]
(c) periodical payments to an insured person suffering from disablement as a result of an
employment injury sustained as an employee under this Act and certified to be eligible for such
payments by an authority specified in this behalf by the regulations (hereinafter referred to as
disablement benefit);
(d) periodical payments to such dependants of an insured person who dies as a result of an
employment injury sustained as an employee under this Act, as are entitled to compensation under
this Act (hereinafter referred to as dependants benefit); 4***
(e) medical treatment for and attendance on insured persons (hereinafter referred to as medical
benefit) ; 2[and]
2[(f) payment to the eldest surviving member of the family of an insured person who has died,
towards the expenditure on the funeral of the deceased insured person, or, where the insured person
did not have a family or was not living with his family at the time of his death, to the person who
actually incurs the expenditure on the funeral of the deceased insured person (to be known as
5[funeral expenses]):
Provided that the amount of such payment shall not exceed 6[such amount as may be prescribed by
the Central Government] and the claim for such payment shall be made within three months of the death
of the insured person or within such extended period as the Corporation or any officer or authority
authorised by it in this behalf may allow.]
(2) The Corporation may, at the request of the appropriate Government, and subject to such
conditions as may be laid down in the regulations, extend the medical benefits to the family of an insured
person.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 44 of 1966, s. 18, for "or, as the case may be, their dependants" (w.e.f. 28-1-1968).
2. Ins. by s. 18, ibid. (w.e.f. 28-1-1968).
3. Subs. by s. 18, ibid., for clause (b) (w.e.f. 28-1-1968).
4. The word "and" omitted by s. 18, ibid. (w.e.f. 28-1-1968).
5. Subs. by Act 29 of 1989, s. 17, for "funeral benefit" (w.e.f. 20-10-1989).
6. Subs. by Act 29 of 1989, s. 17, for "one hundred rupees (w.e.f. 1-2-1991).