32. Standard of maternity centre. -(1) The standard of maternity centre to be provided by owners or contractors who are engaged in the manufacture of beedis for the purpose of getting the grants-in-aid envisaged in Cl. (c) of sub-section (1) of Sec. 4 of the Act shall be as specified in Sch. III, hereinafter in this rule and as in rules 33,34 and 35 referred as the prescribed standard. (2) There shall be maintained an independent maternity centre at each establishment engaged in the manufacture of beedis according to the prescribed standard: Provided that a common main maternity centre may be maintained for several establishments or factories engaged in the manufacture of beedis with branch maternity centre attached to each establishment or factory engaged in the manufacture of beedis subject to the following conditions, namely: (i) The common main maternity centres shall maintain the prescribed standard for the aggregate number of workers of all the establishment or factories engaged in the manufacture of beedis served by it or the standard maintained by it during the year 1975, whichever is higher; (ii) Every branch maternity centre shall have a qualified doctor and a qualified compounder ; (iii) The common main maternity centre shall be so situate that none of the establishments manufacturing beedi served by it is more than fifteen kilometers away from it; and (iv) The common main maternity centre shall maintain an ambulance van for taking serious cases from the branch maternity centres to the common maternity centre. (3) The Commissioner may, if he is satisfied that a maternity centre is being efficiently run and serves the purpose for which it is established, waive any of the requirements specified in the prescribed standard: Provided that the functions of a lady health visitor may be performed by a fully qualified and registered mid-wife, who has not less than ten years experience as a midwife: Provided further that a lady medical licenciate may be appointed to be in-charge of a maternity centre catering to more than 1,000 workers if she has ten years experience as a medical officer in independent charge of a maternity centre.
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