{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-paternity-adoption-and-shared-parental-leave-parental-order-cases-regulations-2014/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111121665",
  "legislation_title": "The Paternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave (Parental Order Cases) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-paternity-adoption-and-shared-parental-leave-parental-order-cases-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Regulation 2 (interpretation) of the Leave Regulations as they apply to parental order parents shall read as if—\n(a) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) the definitions of “adopter” and “child” were omitted;\n(ii) in the definition of “partner”, the words “a child’s mother or adopter” were “Parent A” and the words “mother or adopter”, in both places, were “Parent A”;\n(iii) there were, in the appropriate places alphabetically, the following definitions—\n““intended parent”, in relation to a child, means a person who, on the day of the child’s birth—\n(a) applies, or intends to apply during the period of 6 months beginning with that day, with another person for a parental order in respect of the child, and\n(b) expects the court to make a parental order on that application in respect of the child;\n“Parent A” in relation to a child, means the parental order parent who has elected to be Parent A;\n“parental order” means an order under section 54(1) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008;\n“parental order parent” means a person—\n(a) on whose application the court has made a parental order in respect of the child, or\n(b) who is an intended parent of the child;\n“parental statutory declaration” means a statutory declaration stating that the person making the declaration—\n(a) has applied, or intends to apply, under section 54 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 with another person for a parental order in respect of the child within the time limit for making such an application; and\n(b) expects the court to make a parental order on that application in respect of the child;\n“shared parental leave” means leave under section 75E or 75G of the Employment Rights Act 1996;”\n(b) in paragraph (2)—\n(i) the words “a child’s mother or adopter” were “Parent A”;\n(ii) the words “the mother’s or adopter’s” were “Parent A’s”;\n(c) the words of paragraph (4) were—\n“a parental order parent elects to be Parent A in relation to a child if he agrees with the other parental order parent of the child that he, and not the other parental order parent, will be Parent A”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111121665/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:12:07.232799+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."
}