The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

Contractual rights to maternity leave

110.—(1) An employee who has both the right to maternity leave under Article 103 and another right to maternity leave (under a contract of employment or otherwise) may not exercise the two rights separately but may, in taking maternity leave, take advantage of whichever right is, in any particular respect, the more favourable.

(2) The provisions of Articles 104 to 109 apply, subject to any modifications necessary to give effect to any more favourable contractual terms, to the exercise of the composite right described in paragraph (1) as they apply to the exercise of the right under Article 103.