(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3) (a) (ii), a female employee or self-employed woman who has given birth to a child before 1st April 2001 but has satisfied all the other requirements specified in subsection (3) shall —
- (a) in the case of a female employee, be entitled to payment by her employer of her gross rate of pay in accordance with subsection (5) if she has been granted maternity leave for the benefit period and such leave has not been completely consumed by 1st April 2001; and
- (b) in the case of a self-employed woman who has ceased to be actively engaged in her trade, business, profession or vocation during the period referred to in subsection (2), be entitled to claim from the Government in accordance with subsection (6), such income as she would otherwise have derived from her trade, business, profession or vocation had she continued to be actively engaged in such trade, business, profession or vocation during that period.
(5) A female employee referred to in subsection (4) (a) shall only be entitled to her gross rate of pay in respect of that period of her maternity leave which remains unconsumed on 1st April 2001.
(6) A self-employed woman referred to in subsection (4) (b) shall only be entitled to claim the income she would have derived from her trade, business, profession or vocation for that part of the period referred to in subsection (2) which remains unexhausted on 1st April 2001.
(7) Notwithstanding anything in this section, no woman shall be entitled to any payment under this section —
- (a) if she is also entitled to payment under section 76 of the Employment Act (Cap. 91) in respect of the confinement to which this section applies; and
- (b) in excess of the amount of $20,000 (which amount shall be inclusive of any contribution to the Central Provident Fund which an employer, a female employee or self-employed woman is liable to make under the Central Provident Fund Act (Cap. 36)) regardless of—
- (i) the gross rate of pay to which she would normally have been entitled under the terms of her contract of service; or
