ESI notification-Amendment of Employees’ State Insurance (Central) Rules, 1950

The Central Government, after consultation with the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation, hereby makes the
following rules further to amend the Employees’ State Insurance (Central) Rules, 1950, namely:-

  • These rules may be called the Employees’ State Insurance (Central) Amendment Rules, 2022.
  • They shall be deemed to have come into force on the 20th day of January, 2017.

In the Employees’ State Insurance (Central) Rules, 1950, in sub-rule (1) of rule 55, after the third
proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:—

“Provided also that in case of an insured woman who is in receipt of maternity benefit and due to
reason of which a shorter contribution period is available to her in the contribution period in which the
maternity benefit falls, she shall be qualified to claim sickness benefit in the corresponding benefit
period if the contribution in respect of her was payable for not less than half the number of days
available for working in such contribution period.”.