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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations 1999 No. 3312
8. The prohibition in section 72 of the 1996 Act, against permitting an employee who satisfies prescribed conditions to work during a particular period (referred to as a “compulsory maternity leave period”), applies—
(a)in relation to an employee who is entitled to ordinary maternity leave, and
(b)in respect of the period of two weeks which commences with the day on which childbirth occurs.
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