Employment Relations (1999 Order) (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999

Maternity leave

8.  The following provisions shall have effect only in relation to employees whose expected week of childbirth (as defined in Article 2(3) of the 1996 Order) begins on or after 30th April 2000 and, insofar as they relate to dismissal, only where the effective date of termination (within the meaning of Article 129 of the 1996 Order) falls on or after 15th December 1999—

(a) the amendments to Part IX of the 1996 Order made by Part I of Schedule 4 to the 1999 Order, so far as they relate to maternity leave;

(b) the amendments made by Part III of Schedule 4 to the 1999 Order, other than those relating to protection from detriment, so far as they affect an employee who is pregnant, has given birth to a child or has a right under Part IX of the 1996 Order as in force on the date of this Order; and

(c) the repeals specified in Part II of Schedule 9 to the 1999 Order.