Maternity benefit claim procedure requires specified certificates, employer notice, nominee payment, and timely disbursement of dues. Proof of pregnancy, confinement, miscarriage, medical termination of pregnancy, tubectomy operation, pregnancy-related illness, or death of the woman or child may be established by specified certificates in Form-X or prescribed register extracts. A woman entitled to maternity benefit must give notice to the employer in Form-XI, though a plain paper or electronic application may be accepted and a claim is not invalid for want of the specified form. The employer must pay maternity benefit and other dues to the woman, her nominee, or legal representative, with payment and deposit procedures applying where entitlement is in doubt.