# The Bereaved Partner’s Paternity Leave Regulations 2026, Regulation 18: Corresponding contractual rights


(1) This paragraph applies where an employee is entitled to bereaved partner’s paternity leave and also to a right which corresponds to that right and which arises under the employee’s contract of employment or otherwise.
(2) Where paragraph (1) applies—
(a) the employee may not exercise the right to bereaved partner’s paternity leave and the corresponding right separately but may, in taking the leave for which the two rights provide, take advantage of whichever right is, in any particular respect, the more favourable, and
(b) the provisions of the 1996 Act and of these Regulations relating to bereaved partner’s paternity leave apply, subject to any modifications necessary to give effect to any more favourable contractual terms, to the exercise of the composite right described in sub-paragraph (a) as they apply to the exercise of the right to bereaved partner’s paternity leave.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348278446/regulation/18 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-bereaved-partners-paternity-leave-regulations-2026/regulation-18
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