7. Disablement Benefit. Number 5 of the "Guidelines to periodic reporting under Article 62 of the African Charter" requires information about what the State is doing to improve the condition of the women, children and disable. The dispositions that have been enacted in Seychelles, some of them since many years ago, are expressions of the effective legal implementation of important rights for the more vulnerable and defenceless persons in the society. Women By 2002 women were well represented at all levels of the government. They occupied 37 % of the post of district administrators in the local government, 30 % of the posts as directors general in government, 27 % in Cabinet and 24 % in Parliament. Constitution Article 30: "The State recognises the unique status and natural maternal functions of women in society and undertakes as a result to take appropriate measures to ensure that a working mother is afforded special protection with regard to paid leave and her conditions at work during such reasonable period provided by law before and after childbirth". Civil Code, 1/01/1976. Laws of Seychelles 1996. Article 215.1: "A married woman shall have full legal capacity as she were a femme sole". Commercial Code Act, First Schedule, 1/01/1977. Laws of Seychelles. Article 4.1: "A married woman shall have full capacity as if she were a femme sole. In particular, she shall be free to engage in commerce without the consent of her husband and shall alone be subject, in respect of her separate property to the insolvency laws". Status of Married Woman Act, 3/05/1948. Laws of Seychelles 1996. Section 4: "A married woman shall in accordance with the provisions of this act, be capable of acquiring, holding and disposing by will or otherwise of any movable or immovable property in the same manner as if she were femme sole, without the intervention of any trustee or the consent of her husband. This Act also regulates, investments in joint names of a married woman and others, remedies for protection and security of separate property, married woman to be liable for the maintenance of her husband, etc (Sections 12, 16 and 23).

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