# The Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 S.R. 2007/393 · made 3 September 2007 These Regulations amend the Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (S.R. 2003 No. 174) (“the 2003 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. Made under: The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (Article 112F) PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/flexible-working-eligibility-complaints-and-remedies-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/pdf/nisr_20070393_en.pdf ## Introductory text employment work and families Made 3rd September 2007 Coming into operation 1st October 2007 The Department for Employment and Learning, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 112F(1)(b) and 112F(9) of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, and now vested in it, makes the following Regulations: ## 1 Citation and commencement These Regulations may be cited as the Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 1st October 2007. ## 2 Amendment of the Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 The Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 are amended as follows. ## 3 Amendment of the Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)— (1) for the definition of “adopter” substitute— ““adopter”, in relation to a child, means— (a) a person with whom an adoption agency has decided the child should be placed for adoption; or (b) a person who has given notice of an intention to apply for an adoption order as required by Article 22 of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 or, in relation to England and Wales, as required by section 44 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 or, in relation to Scotland, as required by section 22 of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978;”; (2) after the definition of “adopter” insert— ““adoption agency” means an adoption agency within the meaning of Article 3(3) of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 or, in relation to England and Wales, of section 2 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 or, in relation to Scotland, of section 1(4) of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978;”; (3) after the definition of “partner” insert— ““private foster carer” means a person fostering a child privately within the meaning of Articles 106 and 107 of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 or, in relation to England and Wales, within the meaning of section 66 of the Children Act 1989 or, in relation to Scotland, an individual other than a parent of the child who maintains the child as a foster child for the purposes of the Foster Children (Scotland) Act 1984, or otherwise looks after the child in circumstances in which that Act applies by virtue of section 17 of that Act;”; (4) after the definition of “relative” insert— ““residence order” means an order as defined by Article 8(1) of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 or, in relation to England and Wales, section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 or, in relation to Scotland, section 11(2)(c) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995;”. ## 4 Amendment of the Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 In regulation 3 (entitlement to request a contract variation to care for a child) for paragraph (1)(b) substitute— “(b) is either— (i) the mother, father, adopter, guardian, special guardian, foster parent or private foster carer of, or a person in whose favour a residence order is in force in respect of, the child; or (ii) married to, the partner or civil partner of— (aa) the child’s mother, father, adopter, guardian, special guardian, foster parent or private foster carer, or (bb) a person in whose favour a residence order is in force in respect of the child;”. ## Signature Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Employment and Learning on 3rd September 2007. L.S. Sir Reg Empey Minister for Employment and Learning ## Explanatory note (This note is not part of the Regulations) These Regulations amend the Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (S.R. 2003 No. 174) (“the 2003 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. This right is provided for in the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, as amended by the Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006. Regulation 3 amends the definitions in regulation 2(1) of the 2003 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”. Regulation 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. Regulation 4 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. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/393 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/flexible-working-eligibility-complaints-and-remedies-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2007 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.