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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1962-31/article-55a",
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  "legislation": "eur/1962/31",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation No 31 (EEC), 11 (EAEC), laying down the Staff Regulations of Officials and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1962-31",
  "path": "article/55a",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "55a",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. An official may request authorisation to work part time.\nThe Appointing Authority may grant such authorisation if this is compatible with the interests of the service.\n2. The official shall be entitled to authorisation in the following cases:\n(a) to care for a dependent child under 9 years of age,\n(b) to care for a dependent child aged between 9 and 12, if the reduction in working time is no more than 20 % of normal working time,\n(c) to care for a dependent child until he reaches the age of 14 when the official is a single parent,\n(d) in cases of serious hardship, to care for a dependent child until he reaches the age of 14 if the reduction in working time is no more than 5 % of normal working time. In that case, the first two paragraphs of Article 3 of Annex IVa shall not apply. Where both parents are employed in the service of the Union, only one shall be entitled to such reduction,\n(e) to care for a seriously ill or disabled spouse, relative in the ascending line, relative in the descending line, brother or sister,\n(f) to take part in further training, or\n(g) as of the age of 58 during the last three years before he reaches pensionable age.\nWhere part-time is requested in order to take part in further training, or during the last three years before reaching pensionable age, but not before the age of 58, the appointing authority may refuse authorisation or postpone its date of effect only in exceptional circumstances and for overriding service-related reasons.\nWhere such entitlement to authorisation is exercised to care for a seriously ill or disabled spouse, relative in the ascending line, relative in the descending line, brother or sister, or to take part in further training, the total of all such periods shall not exceed five years over the official's career.\n3. The Appointing Authority shall reply to the official's request within 60 days.\n4. The rules governing part-time work and the procedure for granting authorisation are laid down in Annex IVa.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 723/2004 of 22 March 2004 amending the Staff Regulations of officials of the European Communities and the Conditions of Employment of other servants of the European Communities."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1023/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2013 amending the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1962/31/article/55a",
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  },
  "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."
}