{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flexible-working-eligibility-complaints-and-remedies-amendment-regulations-2006/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flexible-working-eligibility-complaints-and-remedies-amendment-regulations-2006/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/3314",
  "legislation_title": "The Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) (Amendment) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flexible-working-eligibility-complaints-and-remedies-amendment-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) Regulations 2002",
  "text": "After regulation 3 insert—\n“Age of child\n3A. An application under regulation 3 must be made before the day on which the child concerned reaches the age of 6 or, if disabled, 18.\nEntitlement to request a contract variation to care for an adult\n3B. An employee is entitled to make an application to his employer for a contract variation to enable him, in accordance with section 80F(1)(b)(ii) of the 1996 Act, to care for a person aged 18 or over if the employee—\n(a) has been continuously employed for a period of not less than 26 weeks;\n(b) is or expects to be caring for a person in need of care who is either—\n(i) married to or the partner or civil partner of the employee;\n(ii) a relative of the employee; or\n(iii) living at the same address as the employee.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/3314/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:13:04.679734+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."
}