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The Working Time Regulations 1998
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- 1998 No. 1833
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[F1Leave during the first year of employmentE+W+S
15A.—(1) During the first year of his employment, the amount of leave a worker may take at any time in exercise of his entitlement under regulation 13 [F2or regulation 13A] is limited to the amount which is deemed to have accrued in his case at that time under paragraph (2) [F3or (2A)], as modified under paragraph (3) in a case where that paragraph applies, less the amount of leave (if any) that he has already taken during that year.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), [F4in the case of workers to whom the Agricultural Wages (Scotland) Act 1949 applies,] leave is deemed to accrue over the course of the worker’s first year of employment, at the rate of one-twelfth of the amount specified in regulation 13(1) on the first day of each month of that year.
[F5(2A) Except where paragraph (2) applies, for the purposes of paragraph (1), leave is deemed to accrue over the course of the worker’s first year of employment, at the rate of one-twelfth of the amount specified in regulation 13(1) and regulation 13A(2), subject to the limit contained in regulation 13A(3), on the first day of each month of that year.]
(3) Where the amount of leave that has accrued in a particular case includes a fraction of a day other than a half-day, the fraction shall be treated as a half-day if it is less than a half-day and as a whole day if it is more than a half-day.
(4) This regulation does not apply to a worker whose employment began on or before 25th October 2001.]
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 15A inserted (25.10.2001) by The Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/3256), regs. 1(1), 4
F2Words in reg. 15A(1) inserted (1.10.2007) by The Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2079), regs. 1(2), 2(6)
F3Words in reg. 15A(1) inserted (1.10.2007) by The Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2079), regs. 1(2), 2(7)
F4Words in reg. 15A(2) inserted (1.10.2007) by The Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2079), regs. 1(2), 2(8)
F5Reg. 15A(2A) inserted (1.10.2007) by The Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2079), regs. 1(2), 2(9)
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