28Transitional maternity leave provisions relating to employees of the Corporation who were on maternity leave immediately before the transfer day

28 Transitional maternity leave provisions relating to employees of the Corporation who were on maternity leave immediately before the transfer day

(1) This section applies if: (a) immediately before the transfer day, a woman was an employee of the Corporation and was on leave granted under the Maternity Leave Act; and (b) the woman becomes an employee of the Company under section 14; and (c) the woman would have been entitled to remain on that leave, on and after the transfer day, if this Act had not been enacted and the woman had continued to be employed by the Corporation. (2) On and after the transfer day, the Maternity Leave Act continues to apply to the woman in relation to the confinement in respect of which the leave was granted as if the Company were a prescribed authority for the purposes of that Act.