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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-families-act-2014/schedule-7/paragraph-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-families-act-2014/schedule-7/paragraph-39.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/6",
  "legislation_title": "Children and Families Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-and-families-act-2014",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/39",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 99 (dismissal to be regarded as unfair where the dismissal relates to leave for family reasons), in subsection (3) (reasons or sets of circumstances that may be prescribed)—\n(a) after paragraph (ba) there is inserted—\n“(bb) shared parental leave,”;\n(b) in paragraph (ca), for “ordinary or additional paternity leave” there is substituted “ paternity leave ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 39(a) in force at 30.6.2014 by S.I. 2014/1640, art. 3(2)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 39(b) in force at 5.4.2015 by S.I. 2014/1640, art. 7(t) (with art. 16)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/6/schedule/7/paragraph/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:52.883054+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}