Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HORTICULTURE MARKETING AND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES (REPEALS AND CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 2000 - SECT 33

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

  (a)   immediately before the transfer day, the person was a female employee of a statutory authority; and

  (b)   the person becomes an employee of the industry services body on the transfer day; and

  (c)   within 9 months after the transfer day, the person would have been entitled to start leave granted under the Maternity Leave Act if the person had continued to be an employee of the statutory authority.

  (2)   On and after the transfer day, the Maternity Leave Act continues to apply to the person in relation to the confinement in respect of which she would have been entitled to leave as if the industry services body were a prescribed authority for the purposes of that Act.