Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies in relation to a transferring employee if:
(a) immediately before the transfer time, the employee was a female employee of a statutory authority; and
(b) within 9 months after the transfer 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 the statutory authority.
(2) After the transfer 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 the industry services body were a prescribed authority for the purposes of that Act.