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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-additional-paternity-leave-adoptions-from-overseas-regulations-2010/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111493724",
  "legislation_title": "The Additional Paternity Leave (Adoptions from Overseas) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-additional-paternity-leave-adoptions-from-overseas-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Options in respect of leave under regulation 4",
  "text": "(1) P may choose to take leave under regulation 4 at any time within the period which begins 20 weeks after the date on which C entered Great Britain and ends 12 months after that date.\n(2) The minimum period of leave which may be taken is two weeks and the maximum period is 26 weeks.\n(3) The leave must be taken in multiples of complete weeks and must be taken as one continuous period.\n(4) The leave may not be taken until eight weeks after the date of P’s leave notice under regulation 6(1).\n(5) This regulation is subject to regulation 14 (disrupted placement or death of child).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111493724/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:55:19.310120+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."
}