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Version status: Amended
Version date: 7 December 2022 - onwards
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34. Amendment of Maternity Protection Act 1994

This format of the bill is taken from the text of stage 1 published on 5 October 2022 by Dáil Éireann

The Maternity Protection Act 1994 is amended -

(a) in section 2(1), by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of "employee who is breastfeeding":

"'employee who is breastfeeding' means at any time an employee whose date of confinement was not more than one hundred and four weeks earlier, who is breastfeeding and who has informed her employer of her condition;",

(b) by the deletion of section 7(2), and

(c) in section 16(1), by the substitution of "woman or other person" for "woman".