{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/36",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Rights Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-rights-act-2025",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Paternity leave: removal of qualifying period of employment",
  "text": "(1) In section 80A of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (entitlement to paternity leave: birth)—\n(a) in subsection (1), omit paragraph (a);\n(b) in subsection (6A), omit paragraph (a).\n(2) In section 80B of that Act (entitlement to paternity leave: adoption)—\n(a) in subsection (1), omit paragraph (a);\n(b) in subsection (6C), omit paragraph (a).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 159(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 6.1.2026 for specified purposes by S.I. 2026/3, reg. 2(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 18.2.2026 for specified purposes by S.I. 2026/3, reg. 3(3) (with Sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 6.4.2026 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2026/3, reg. 4(3) (with Sch. 1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/36/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:14.747207+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."
}