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Amendments made: No. 1, in page 36, line 44, after 'shall' insert
'subject to sections 36 and 37'.
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No. 2, in page 37, line 6, at end insert—
'(3) An employee who has both the right conferred by this section and a corresponding right conferred by her contract of employment or otherwise may take advantage of whichever right is, in any particular respect, the more favourable.'
§ No. 3, in page 37, line 8, leave out from 'with' to end of line 14 and insert—
- '(a) the date which, in accordance with section 36, she notifies to her employer as the date on which she intends her period of absence from work in exercise of her right to maternity leave to commence, or
- (b) if earlier, the first day on which she is absent from work wholly or partly because of pregnancy or childbirth after the beginning of the sixth week before the expected week of childbirth.'
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No. 37, in page 37, line 26, at end insert
'or until the birth of the child, if later'.
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No. 38, in page 37, line 32, leave out from first of' to 'by' and insert
'the period mentioned in subsection (1)'.
§ No. 4, in page 37, line 43, at end insert—