The Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations 1999

Entitlement to parental leave

13.—(1) An employee who—

(a) has been continuously employed for a period of not less than a year; 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.

(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(1) or of section 18(1) or (2) of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965(2).

(3) An employee is not entitled to parental leave in respect of a child born before 15th December 1999, except for a child who is adopted by the employee, or placed with the employee for adoption by him, on or after that date.

(1)

1953 c. 20; sections 10 and 10A were substituted by the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42), sections 24 and 25.

(2)

1965 c. 49; section 18(1) was substituted, and section 18(2) amended, by the Law Reform (Parent and Child) (Scotland) Act 1986 (c. 9).