{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-80EE",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-80EE.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/18",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996",
  "path": "section/80EE",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "80EE",
  "heading": "Application in relation to stillbirths",
  "text": "In this Chapter—\n(a) references to a child include a child stillborn after twenty-four weeks of pregnancy, and\n(b) references to the death of a child are to be read, in relation to a stillborn child, as references to the birth of the child.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 8 Ch. 4 inserted (18.1.2020) by Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act 2018 (c. 24), s. 2(2), Sch. para. 2; S.I. 2020/45, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/80EE",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:34:50.937818+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."
}