Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

DAIRY INDUSTRY SERVICE REFORM ACT 2003 - SECT 29

  (1)   This section applies in relation to a transferring employee if:

  (a)   immediately before the conversion time, the person was a female employee of ADC or DRDC; and

  (b)   within 9 months after the conversion time, the employee would have been entitled to start leave granted under the Maternity Leave Act if the employee had continued to be an employee of ADC or DRDC.

  (2)   After the conversion time, the Maternity Leave Act continues to apply to the employee in relation to the confinement in respect of which she would have been entitled to leave as if Dairy Australia Limited were a prescribed authority for the purposes of that Act.