48Transitional maternity leave provisions for staff members of the Authority who are on maternity leave immediately before the sale day

#### 48 Transitional maternity leave provisions for staff members of the Authority who are on maternity leave immediately before the sale day (1) This section applies if: (a) immediately before the sale day, a person was a female staff member of the Authority who was on leave granted under the Maternity Leave Act; and (b) the person becomes a Newco employee under section 8; and (c) the person would have continued to have been entitled to have continued on that leave, on and after the sale day, if the person had continued to be a staff member. (2) On and after the sale day, the Maternity Leave Act continues to apply to the person in relation to the confinement in respect of which the leave was granted as if Newco were a prescribed authority for the purposes of that Act.