The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

Requirement to notify return

112.—(1) An employee does not have the right conferred by Article 111 unless she includes with the information required by Article 107(1) the information that she intends to exercise the right.

(2) Where, not earlier than twenty-one days before the end of her maternity leave period, an employee is requested in accordance with paragraph (3) by her employer, or a successor of his, to give him written confirmation that she intends to exercise the right conferred by Article 111, the employee is not entitled to that right unless she gives the requested confirmation—

(a) within fourteen days of receiving the request, or

(b) if that is not reasonably practicable, as soon as is reasonably practicable.

(3) A request under paragraph (2) shall be—

(a) made in writing, and

(b) accompanied by a written statement of the effect of that paragraph.