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The Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations 1999

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PART IIIE+W+S PARENTAL LEAVE

Entitlement to parental leaveE+W+S

13.—(1) An employee who—

(a)has been continuously employed for a period of not less than a year [F1or is to be treated as having been so employed by virtue of paragraph (1A)]; and

(b)has, or expects to have, responsibility for a child,

is entitled, in accordance with these Regulations, to be absent from work on parental leave for the purpose of caring for that child.

[F2(1A) If, in a case where regulation 15(2) or (3) applies—

(a)the employee was employed, during the period between 15th December 1998 and 9th January 2002, by a person other than the person who was his employer on 9th January 2002, and

(b)the period of his employment by that person (or, if he was employed by more than one person during that period, any such person) was not less than a year,

then, for the purposes of paragraph (1), he shall be treated as having been continuously employed for a period of not less than a year.]

(2) An employee has responsibility for a child, for the purposes of paragraph (1), if—

(a)he has parental responsibility or, in Scotland, parental responsibilities for the child; or

(b)he has been registered as the child’s father under any provision of section 10(1) or 10A(1) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 M1 or of section 18(1) or (2) of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 M2.

F3(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Extent of entitlementE+W+S

14.[F4(1) An employee is entitled to eighteen weeks’ leave in respect of any individual child.]

F5(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(2) Where the period for which an employee is normally required, under his contract of employment, to work in the course of a week does not vary, a week’s leave for the employee is a period of absence from work which is equal in duration to the period for which he is normally required to work.

(3) Where the period for which an employee is normally required, under his contract of employment, to work in the course of a week varies from week to week or over a longer period, or where he is normally required under his contract to work in some weeks but not in others, a week’s leave for the employee is a period of absence from work which is equal in duration to the period calculated by dividing the total of the periods for which he is normally required to work in a year by 52.

(4) Where an employee takes leave in periods shorter than the period which constitutes, for him, a week’s leave under whichever of paragraphs (2) and (3) is applicable in his case, he completes a week’s leave when the aggregate of the periods of leave he has taken equals the period constituting a week’s leave for him under the applicable paragraph.

When parental leave may be takenE+W+S

[F615.(1) Except in the cases referred to in paragraphs (2)–(4), an employee may not exercise any entitlement to parental leave in respect of a child after the date of the child’s fifth birthday or, in the case of a child placed with the employee for adoption by him, on or after—

(a)the fifth anniversary of the date on which the placement began, or

(b)the date of the child’s eighteenth birthday,

whichever is the earlier.

(2) In the case of child—

(a)born before 15th December 1999, whose fifth birthday was or is on or after that date, or

(b)placed with the employee for adoption by him before 15th December 1999, the fifth anniversary of whose placement was or is on or after that date,

not being a case to which paragraph (3) or (4) applies, any entitlement to parental leave may not be exercised after 31st March 2005.

(3) In the case of a child who is entitled to a disability living allowance, any entitlement to parental leave may not be exercised on or after the date of the child’s eighteenth birthday.

(4) In a case where—

(a)the provisions set out in Schedule 2 apply, and

(b)the employee was unable to take leave in respect of a child within the time permitted in the case of that child under paragraphs (1) or (2) because the employer postponed the period of leave under paragraph 6 of that Schedule,

the entitlement to leave is exercisable until the end of the period to which the leave was postponed.]

Default provisions in respect of parental leaveE+W+S

16.  The provisions set out in Schedule 2 apply in relation to parental leave in the case of an employee whose contract of employment does not include a provision which—

(a)confers an entitlement to absence from work for the purpose of caring for a child, and

(b)incorporates or operates by reference to all or part of a collective agreement or workforce agreement.

[F7ReviewE+W+S

16A.(1) The Secretary of State must from time to time—

(a)carry out a review of regulations 13 to 16 and Schedule 2,

(b)set out the conclusions of the review in a report, and

(c)publish the report.

(2) In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how Council Directive 2010/18/EU of 8 March 2010 implementing the revised framework agreement on parental leave (which is implemented by means of regulations 13 to 16 and Schedule 2) is implemented in other member States.

(3) The report must in particular—

(a)set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory system established by those regulations,

(b)assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved, and

(c)assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.

(4) The first report under this regulation must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which this regulation comes into force.

(5) Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.]

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