# The Education Workforce Council (Main Functions) (Wales) Regulations 2015, Regulation 16: Extension of specified period

Extent: E+W

Where any person is permitted to carry out work specified in regulation 17 for a specified period by virtue of regulation 18A or any of the provisions of Schedule 3, that period will be extended by a period equal to the aggregate of any period or periods during which the person concerned is absent from work—
(a) in exercise of that person’s—
(i) right to maternity leave conferred by section 71 or 73 of the 1996 Act or a contract of employment and has the right to return to work by virtue of either of these sections or a contract of employment;
(ii) right to parental leave conferred by section 76 of the 1996 Act;
(iii) right to paternity leave conferred by section 80A or 80B of the 1996 Act; ...
(iv) right to adoption leave conferred by section 75A or 75B of the 1996 Act; ...
(v) right to shared parental leave conferred by section 75E or 75G of the 1996 Act; ...
(vi) right to parental bereavement leave conferred by section 80EA of the 1996 Act; or
(vii) right to neonatal care leave conferred by section 80EF of the 1996 Act;
(b) because of pregnancy; or;
(c) because of sickness or injury.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/140/regulation/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-workforce-council-main-functions-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-16
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