Clause 15

Any reimbursement made by the Government to an employer during the specified period, in respect of a specified female employee’s pre‑confinement absence from work that would have satisfied the requirements of section 10(2B)(c) of the principal Act (as amended by section 3) (called the amended provision) if the amended provision had been in force, is taken to have been validly made under section 10(2A) of the principal Act as if the amended provision were in force during the specified period.

In subsection (1) —

“pre-confinement absence from work”, in relation to a specified female employee, means the absence from work of the specified female employee during a period that commences not earlier than 28 days immediately preceding the day of her confinement;

“specified female employee” means a female employee in relation to whom the requirements of section 10(2B)(a), (b)(i) and (e) of the principal Act as in force during the specified period, are satisfied;

“specified period” means the period between 1 November 2021 and the date immediately before the date of commencement of section 3 (both dates inclusive).