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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flexible-working-eligibility-complaints-and-remedies-amendment-no-2-regulations-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/2286",
  "legislation_title": "The Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flexible-working-eligibility-complaints-and-remedies-amendment-no-2-regulations-2007",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3236) (“the 2002 Regulations”) in respect of the categories of person entitled to make a request under the statutory right for employees to request a contract variation to care for a child or an adult.\nThe right is provided for in the Employment Rights Act 1996 as amended by the Work and Families Act 2006.\nRegulation 3 amends the definitions in regulation 2(1) of the 2002 Regulations. Those amendments redefine “adopter”, to extend the definition to those who are adopting a child, whether domestically or intercountry, where the child has not been placed with those adopters by a UK adoption agency. They also add definitions of “adoption agency”, “private foster carer” and “residence order”.\nRegulation 4 adds private foster carer, and the spouse, partner and civil partner of a private foster carer, to the list of those people who are entitled to request a contract variation to care for a child, to encompass a category of people who foster children privately rather than those with whom children are placed by fostering services. It also adds a person in whose favour a residence order is in force in respect of a child, and the spouse, partner or civil partner of such a person, to that list.\nNo Impact Assessment of the costs and benefits of these Regulations to business has been prepared because the additional costs to business are estimated to be negligible.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2286/note",
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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."
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