{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-80EI",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996/section-80EI.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/18",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-1996",
  "path": "section/80EI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "80EI",
  "heading": "Chapter 5: supplemental",
  "text": "(1) Regulations under section 80EF may—\n(a) specify circumstances where neonatal care is to be regarded as continuous despite an interruption;\n(b) make provision about notices to be given, evidence to be produced and other procedures to be followed by employees and employers;\n(c) make provision requiring employers or employees to keep records;\n(d) make provision for the consequences of failure to give notices, to produce evidence, to keep records or to comply with other procedural requirements;\n(e) make provision for the consequences of failure to act in accordance with a notice given by virtue of paragraph (b);\n(f) make special provision for cases where an employee has a right which corresponds to a right under section 80EF and which arises under the person’s contract of employment or otherwise;\n(g) make provision modifying the effect of Chapter 2 of Part 14 (calculation of a week’s pay) in relation to an employee who is or has been absent from work on leave under section 80EF;\n(h) make provision applying, modifying or excluding an enactment, in such circumstances as may be specified and subject to any conditions which may be specified, in relation to a person entitled to take leave under section 80EF;\n(i) make different provision for different cases or circumstances;\n(j) make consequential provision.\n(2) The cases or circumstances mentioned in subsection (1)(i) include—\n(a) more than one child (with whom an employee has a parental or other personal relationship) receiving neonatal care in specified circumstances;\n(b) a child receiving neonatal care on two or more separate occasions;\nand regulations may, in particular, make special provision regarding the applicability and extent of the entitlement to leave in such circumstances.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 8 Ch. 5 inserted (17.1.2025) by Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act 2023 (c. 20), s. 3(3), Sch. para. 2; S.I. 2025/41, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/18/section/80EI",
    "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."
}