The Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) Regulations 1997

Notification of pregnancy

10.—(1) Nothing in paragraphs (2) or (3) of regulation 8 shall require any action to be taken in relation to a worker until she has notified the employer or the Company, as the case may be, in writing that she is pregnant, has given birth within the previous six months or is breast-feeding.

(2) Nothing in paragraph (2) or (3) of regulation 8 or in regulation 9 shall require action to be maintained in relation to a worker—

(a) in a case—

(i) to which regulation 8(2) or (3) relates, and

(ii) where the worker has notified her employer that she is pregnant,

where she has failed, within a reasonable time of being requested to do so in writing by her employer, to produce for the employer’s inspection a certificate from a registered medical practitioner or a registered midwife showing that she is pregnant;

(b) once the employer knows that she is no longer a new or expectant mother; or

(c) if the employer cannot establish whether she remains a new or expectant mother.