Section 13 — Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987: Right of medical practitioner or midwife to determine date of commencement of maternity leave

13 Right of medical practitioner or midwife to determine date of commencement of maternity leave (1) If a medical practitioner or midwife considers that the female employee, being pregnant, should begin her maternity leave before the expected date of delivery, the medical practitioner or midwife may give to the female employee a certificate specifying the date on which, in the medical practitioner's or midwife's opinion, that female employee should begin her maternity leave. (2) If the female employee gives that certificate to her employer, her maternity leave, despite section 10 or section 12 or section 14 , begins on the earlier of— (a) the date specified in the certificate; or (b) the date of confinement. Section 13 was substituted, as from 1 July 2002, by section 10 Parental Leave And Employment Protection (Paid Parental Leave) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 7). Subsection (1) was amended, as from 18 September 2004, by section 175(1) Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (2003 No 48) by omitting the word “ registered ” . See sections 178 to 227 of that Act as to the transitional provisions.