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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-neonatal-care-leave-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2025/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-neonatal-care-leave-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2025/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348268034",
  "legislation_title": "The Neonatal Care Leave and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-neonatal-care-leave-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Options in respect of neonatal care leave",
  "text": "(1) Where an employee takes neonatal care leave in the tier 1 period—\n(a) the leave may not be taken before the day after the first qualifying period;\n(b) the leave may be taken in non-consecutive weeks.\n(2) Any neonatal care leave the employee does not choose to take in the tier 1 period—\n(a) may be taken in the tier 2 period;\n(b) must be taken consecutively.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348268034/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:39:44.544076+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."
}