Section 51: Disablement benefit

The Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 was repealed and replaced by the Code on Social Security, 2020 from 21 November 2025. It still applies to matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides.

Subject to the provisions of this Act ***,—

(a) a person who sustains temporary disablement for not less than three days (excluding the day of accident) shall be entitled to periodical payment [at such rates and for such periods and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the Central Government];

(b) a person who sustains permanent disablement, whether total of partial, shall be entitled to periodical payment [at such rates and for such period and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the Central Government]: * * * *

Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.

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