(1) This section applies if:
(a) immediately before the corporatisation date, a woman was an employee of the Snowy Mountains Hydro - electric Authority and was on leave granted under the Maternity Leave Act; and
(b) the woman becomes an employee of the Snowy Hydro Company under section 23; and
(c) the woman would have been entitled to remain on that leave, after the corporatisation date, if the Authority had continued to exist and the woman had continued to be employed by the Authority.
(2) On and after the corporatisation date, the Maternity Leave Act continues to apply to the woman in relation to the confinement in respect of which the leave was granted as if each Snowy hydro - group company were a prescribed Authority for the purposes of that Act.