New Zealand Acts

PARENTAL LEAVE AND EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION ACT 1987 - SECT 13

13 Right of medical practitioner or midwife to determine date of commencement of primary carer leave

1 If a medical practitioner or midwife considers that the female employee, being pregnant, should begin her primary carer 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 primary carer leave.

2 If the female employee gives that certificate to her employer, her primary carer 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.

History: Section 13: substituted, on 1 July 2002, by section 10 of the Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Paid Parental Leave) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 7).   Section 13 heading: amended, on 1 April 2016, by section 22(1) of the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 8).     Section 13(1): amended, on 1 April 2016, by section 22(2) of the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 8).     Section 13(1): amended, on 18 September 2004, by section 175(1) of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (2003 No 48).     Section 13(2): amended, on 1 April 2016, by section 22(2) of the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 8).