107B.—(1) An employee who satisfies prescribed conditions may be absent from work at any time during an additional adoption leave period.
(2) An additional adoption leave period is a period calculated in accordance with regulations made by the Department.
[F3(3) Regulations under paragraph (2)—
(a)may allow an employee to choose, subject to prescribed restrictions, the date on which an additional adoption leave period ends;
(b)may specify circumstances in which an employee may work for his employer during an additional adoption leave period without bringing the period to an end.]
(4) Subject to Article 107C, an employee who exercises his right under paragraph (1)—
(a)is entitled, for such purposes and to such extent as may be prescribed, to the benefit of the terms and conditions of employment which would have applied if he had not been absent,
(b)is bound, for such purposes and to such extent as may be prescribed by obligations arising under those terms and conditions (except in so far as they are inconsistent with paragraph (1)), and
(c)is entitled to return from leave to a job of a prescribed kind.
(5) In paragraph (4)(a) “terms and conditions of employment”
(a)includes matters connected with an employee's employment whether or not they arise under his contract of employment, but
(b)does not include terms and conditions about remuneration.
(6) In paragraph (4)(c), the reference to return from leave includes, where appropriate, a reference to a continuous period of absence attributable partly to additional adoption leave and partly to—
(a)maternity leave, or
(b)ordinary adoption leave,
or to both.
(7) The Department may make regulations specifying matters which are, or are not, to be treated as remuneration for the purposes of this Article.
(8) The Department may make regulations making provision, in relation to the right to return under paragraph (4)(c), about—
(a)seniority, pension rights and similar rights;
(b)terms and conditions of employment on return.]]
F3Art. 107B(3) substituted (1.9.2006) by Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1947 (N.I. 16)), arts. 1(3), 13(1), Sch. 1 para. 33; S.R. 2006/344, art. 2(b)(c)