118 Exclusion or curtailment of other statutory rights to leave

118  Exclusion or curtailment of other statutory rights to leave

(1)     The Employment Rights Act 1996 is amended as follows.

(2)     In section 71 (ordinary maternity leave)—

(a)     in subsection (3), after paragraph (b) there is inserted—

“(ba)     may allow an employee to bring forward the date on which an ordinary maternity leave period ends, subject to prescribed restrictions and subject to satisfying prescribed conditions;

(bb)     may allow an employee in prescribed circumstances to revoke, or to be treated as revoking, the bringing forward of that date;”;

(b)     after subsection (3) there is inserted—

“(3A)     Provision under subsection (3)(ba) is to secure that an employee may bring forward the date on which an ordinary maternity leave period ends only if the employee or another person has taken, or is taking, prescribed steps as regards leave under section 75E or statutory shared parental pay in respect of the child.”

(3)     In section 73 (additional

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