HC Deb 16 February 1993 vol 219 cc263-4

  1. 36.—(1) An employee shall not have the right conferred by section 33 unless—
    1. (a) she notifies her employer of the date (within the restriction imposed by subsection (2)) ("the notified leave date") on which she intends her period of absence from work in exercise of her right to maternity leave to commence—
      1. (i) not less than twenty-one days before that date, or
      2. (ii) if that is not reasonably practicable, as soon as is reasonably practicable,
    2. (b) where she is first absent from work wholly or partly because of pregnancy or childbirth before the notified leave date or before she has notified such a date and after the beginning of the sixth week before the expected week of childbirth, she notifies her employer as soon as is reasonably practicable that she is absent for that reason, or
    3. (c) where childbirth occurs before the notified leave date or before she has notified such a date, she notifies her employer that she has given birth as soon as is reasonably practicable after the birth,
    and any notice she is required to give under paragraphs (a) to (c) shall, if her employer so requests, be given in writing.
  2. (2) No date may be notified under subsection (1)(a) which occurs before the beginning of the eleventh week before the expected week of childbirth.
  3. (3) Where, in the case of an employee, either paragraph (b) or (c) of subsection (1) has fallen to be satisfied, and has been so satisfied, nothing in paragraph (a) of that subsection shall impose any requirement on the employee.'.

No. 5, in page 38, leave out lines 33 to 37. —[Mr. Michael Forsyth.]

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