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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8Consequential amendments

The Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (c. 44)

15In section 61 of the 1978 Act (dismissal of replacement)—

(a)in subsection (1)(a) (dismissal of employee on return to work of employee absent because of pregnancy or confinement)—

(i)for the words “return to work of” there shall be substituted the words “resumption of work by”, and

(ii)for the word “confinement” there shall be substituted the word “childbirth”, and

(b)in subsection (2) (dismissal of employee on resumption of work by employee suspended as mentioned in section 19)—

(i)after the word “19” there shall be inserted the words “or 45”, and

(ii)for the words “other employee to resume his original work” there shall be substituted the words “resumption of work by the other employee”.