Maternity Protection, Employment Equality and Preservation of Certain Records Act 2024

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Number 37 of 2024


MATERNITY PROTECTION, EMPLOYMENT EQUALITY AND PRESERVATION OF CERTAIN RECORDS ACT 2024


CONTENTS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title and commencement

2. Expenses

PART 2

Maternity Protection and Employment Equality

3. Amendment of Maternity Protection Act 1994

4. Maternity leave for member of Houses of Oireachtas

5. Amendment of Employment Equality Act 1998

6. Amendment of Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005

PART 3

Preservation of Certain Records

7. Definitions (Part 3)

8. Power to designate institution, relevant body, relevant record

9. Duty to preserve and furnish statement of relevant records

10. Offences

11. Service of notice

12. Amendment of Act of 1986


Acts Referred to

Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 (No. 14)

Child Care Act 1991 (No. 17)

Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (No. 24)

Civil Registration Act 2004 (No. 3)

Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 (No. 23)

Companies Act 2014 (No. 38)

Employment Equality Act 1998 (No. 21)

Equal Status Act 2000 (No. 8)

Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (No. 27)

Legal Services Regulation Act 2015 (No. 65)

Local Government Act 2001 (No. 37)

Maternity Protection Act 1994 (No. 34)

Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (No. 25)

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023 (No. 20)

National Archives Act 1986 (No. 11)

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015 (No. 8)

Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 (No. 13)

Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (No. 26)

Workplace Relations Act 2015 (No. 16)

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Number 37 of 2024


MATERNITY PROTECTION, EMPLOYMENT EQUALITY AND PRESERVATION OF CERTAIN RECORDS ACT 2024


An Act to amend the Maternity Protection Act 1994 ; to provide that absence by a member of one of the Houses of the Oireachtas from performing duties as such a member in certain circumstances shall be called maternity leave for a member of the Houses of the Oireachtas; to amend the Employment Equality Act 1998 ; to amend the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 ; to provide for the preservation, in the public interest, of certain records relating to certain institutions and bodies; and to provide for related matters.

[28th October, 2024]

Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: