Regulation 13 Entitlement to parental leave

(1)

An employee who—

(a)

has been continuously employed for a period of not less than a year; and

(b)

has, or expects to have, responsibility for a child,

is entitled, in accordance with these Regulations, to be absent from work on parental leave for the purpose of caring for that child.

(2)

An employee has responsibility for a child, for the purposes of paragraph (1), if—

(a)

he has parental responsibility or, in Scotland, parental responsibilities for the child; or

(b)

he has been registered as the child’s father under any provision of section 10(1) or 10A(1) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953^f1 or of section 18(1) or (2) of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965^f2.

(3)

An employee is not entitled to parental leave in respect of a child born before 15th December 1999, except for a child who is adopted by the employee, or placed with the employee for adoption by him, on or after that date.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1953 c. 20; sections 10 and 10A were substituted by the Family Law Reform Act 1987 (c. 42), sections 24 and 25.
f2: 1965 c. 49; section 18(1) was substituted, and section 18(2) amended, by the Law Reform (Parent and Child) (Scotland) Act 1986 (c. 9).