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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (NO.2) (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1976 - SECT 16

16.(1) Maternity pay shall be paid in respect of a period not exceeding, or
periods not exceeding in the aggregate, six weeks during which the employee is
absent from work wholly or partly because of pregnancy or confinement
(hereafter in this Article and Articles 17 and 18 referred to as the payment
period or payment periods).

(2) An employee shall not be entitled to maternity pay for any absence before
the beginning of the 11th week before the expected week of confinement, and
her payment period or payment periods shall be the first six weeks of absence
starting on or falling after the beginning of that 11th week.

(3) The Department may by order vary the periods of six weeks referred to in
paragraphs (1) and (2) or those periods as varied from time to time under this
Article.

(4) Where an employee gives her employer the information required by Article
15(2)(c) or produces any certificate requested under Article 15(4) after the
beginning of the payment period or the first of the payment periods, she shall
not be entitled to maternity pay for any part of that period until she gives
him that information or certificate, but on giving him the information or as
the case may be producing the certificate, she shall be entitled to be paid in
respect of that part of the period or periods which fell before the giving of
the information or the production of the certificate.

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