law: Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948
  46. Benefits
  (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the insured persons, 82[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 practitioner 83[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);
   84  [(b) periodical payments to an insured
  
  woman in case of confinement or miscarriage or sickness arising out of
  
  pregnancy, confinement, premature birth of child or miscarriage, 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); 85[* * *]
  (e) medical treatment for and attendance on
  
  insured persons (hereinafter referred to as medical benefit); 86[and
  
  
  [(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 87[funeral expenses]):
  PROVIDED  that the amount of such payment shall not
  
  exceed 88[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 authorized 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 benefit to the family of an insured person.