Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978

4(1)References in Part VI of this Act shall be adapted as follows, that is to say—

(a)references to the relevant date, wherever they occur, shall be construed, except where the context otherwise requires, as references to the notified day of return;

(b)references in sections 82(4) and 84(1) to a renewal or re-engagement taking effect immediately on the ending of employment under the previous contract or after an interval of not more than four weeks thereafter, shall be construed as references to a renewal or re-engagement taking effect on the notified day of return or not more than four weeks after that day; and

[F1(c)the reference in section 84(3) to the provisions of the previous contract shall be construed as a reference to the provisions of the contract under which the employee worked immediately before the beginning of her maternity leave period.]

(2)Nothing in section 86 shall prevent an employee from being treated, by reason of the operation of section 84(1), as not having been dismissed for the purposes of Part VI of this Act.

(3)The following provisions of this Act shall not apply, that is to say, sections 81(1)(b), 82(1) and (2), 83(1) and (2), 85, 87 to 89, 90(3), 92, 93, 96, 110, 144(2), F2and 150, paragraph 4 of Schedule 4, Schedule 12 and paragraphs 7(1)(j) and (k) and 8(4) of Schedule 14.

(4)For the purposes of Part II of Schedule 14 as it applies for the calculation of a week’s pay for the purposes of Schedule 4, the calculation date is the last day on which the employee worked under [F3her contract of employment immediately before the beginning of her maternity leave period].

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