# The Additional Paternity Leave (Adoptions from Overseas) Regulations 2010, Regulation 20: Early return from additional paternity leave period

Extent: E+W+S

(1) Subject to regulation 13(1) (variation or cancellation of leave in the event of the adopter’s death), where, after P’s additional paternity leave period has begun, P intends to return to work earlier than the end of P’s additional paternity leave period, P must give E at least six weeks’ notice of the date on which P intends to return.
(2) If P attempts to return to work earlier than the end of P’s additional paternity leave period without complying with paragraph (1), E is entitled to postpone P’s return to a date such as will secure, subject to paragraph (5), that E has six weeks’ notice of P’s return.
(3) Where P complies with P’s obligations in paragraph (1), or where E has postponed P’s return in the circumstances described in paragraph (2), if P then decides to return to work—
(a) earlier than the original return date, P must give E not less than six weeks’ notice of the date on which P now intends to return;
(b) later than the original return date, P must give E not less than six weeks’ notice ending with the original return date.
(4) In paragraph (3) the “original return date” means the date which P notified E as the date of P’s return to work under paragraph (1) or the date to which P’s return was postponed by E under paragraph (2).
(5) In a case where P’s return to work has been postponed under paragraph (2) and P—
(a) has been notified that P is not to return to work before the date to which P’s return was postponed, and
(b) returns to work before that date,
E is under no contractual obligation to pay P’s remuneration until the date to which P’s return was postponed.
(6) This regulation does not apply in a case where E did not notify P of the date on which P’s additional paternity leave period would end, in accordance with—
(a) regulation 8, if E is entitled to additional paternity leave by virtue of regulation 4; or
(b) regulation 8 as modified by regulation 10, if P is entitled to additional paternity leave by virtue of regulation 4 as modified by regulation 10.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/1059/regulation/20 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/additional-paternity-leave-adoptions-from-overseas-regulations-2010/regulation-20
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