{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-maternity-and-parental-leave-etc-regulations-1999/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-maternity-and-parental-leave-etc-regulations-1999/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/1999/0110855582",
  "legislation_title": "The Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-maternity-and-parental-leave-etc-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "When parental leave may be taken",
  "text": "An employee may not exercise any entitlement to parental leave in respect of a child—\n(a) except in the cases referred to in paragraphs (b) to (d), after the date of the child’s fifth birthday;\n(b) in a case where the child is entitled to a disability living allowance, after the date of the child’s eighteenth birthday;\n(c) in a case where the child was placed with the employee for adoption by him (other than a case where paragraph (b) applies), after—\n(i) the fifth anniversary of the date on which the placement began, or\n(ii) the date of the child’s eighteenth birthday,\nwhichever is the earlier.\n(d) in a case where—\n(i) the provisions set out in Schedule 2 apply, and\n(ii) the employee would have taken leave on or before a date or anniversary referred to in paragraphs (a) to (c) but for the fact that the employer postponed it under paragraph 6 of that Schedule,\nafter the end of the period to which the leave was postponed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/1999/0110855582/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:19:18.071142+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."
}