{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-bereaved-partners-paternity-leave-regulations-2026/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-bereaved-partners-paternity-leave-regulations-2026/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348278446",
  "legislation_title": "The Bereaved Partner’s Paternity Leave Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-bereaved-partners-paternity-leave-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Extent of entitlement",
  "text": "(1) An employee who is entitled to take bereaved partner’s paternity leave in respect of a child may take a single period of bereaved partner’s paternity leave of up to 52 weeks in accordance with this regulation.\n(2) An employee may only be absent from work on bereaved partner’s paternity leave—\n(a) during the paternity leave eligibility period, and\n(b) after the bereavement date.\n(3) A period of bereaved partner’s paternity leave—\n(a) begins with the leave start date specified in a notice under regulation 6(2) (notice requirements), or the last notified leave start date if the employee has varied that date under regulation 7(1) (notice requirements: variation and cancellation), and\n(b) subject to paragraph (4), ends on the date immediately before the intended return date specified in a notice under regulation 6(2) or (4) (as the case may be), or the last notified intended return date if the employee has varied that date under regulation 7(6).\n(4) Where the employee is dismissed after a period of bereaved partner’s paternity leave has begun but before the time when, apart from this paragraph, that period would end, the period of bereaved partner’s paternity leave ends at the time of the dismissal.\n(5) Subject to paragraph (6), in this regulation, the “paternity leave eligibility period”—\n(a) in a birth case or parental order case, begins with the day after the day on which the child is born and ends 52 weeks after that day;\n(b) in a domestic adoption case, begins with the day after the day on which the child is placed for adoption and ends 52 weeks after that day;\n(c) in an overseas adoption case, begins with the day after the day on which the child enters Great Britain and ends 52 weeks after that day.\n(6) Where the bereavement date is no more than 13 days before the final day of the paternity leave eligibility period set out in paragraph (5), the paternity leave eligibility period ends 14 days after the bereavement date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348278446/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:38:09.100342+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."
}