Section 6. Payment of maternity benefit when woman entitled to it dies.

If a woman worker dies within the period during which she was entitled to receive the maternity benefit, the owner of the factory shall pay the maternity benefit due to the person whom the woman had nominated in the notice referred to in sub-section (1) of section 5 and if no one was so nominated, to the person under whose care the newly born child may be, and otherwise to the husband of the woman; and when there is no husband, to her eldest child provided the owner of the factory has knowledge thereof. In case he does not know and in the absence of the husband and also the children, the amount due shall be paid to the legal representative of the deceased determined in accordance with the rules made by the Government in this behalf.