{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flexible-working-eligibility-complaints-and-remedies-regulations-2002/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flexible-working-eligibility-complaints-and-remedies-regulations-2002/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/3236",
  "legislation_title": "The Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flexible-working-eligibility-complaints-and-remedies-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Entitlement to request a contract variation to care for a child",
  "text": "(1) 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)(i) of the 1996 Act, to care for a child if he—\n(a) has been continuously employed for a period of not less than 26 weeks;\n(b) is either—\n(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 a person named in a child arrangements order as a person with whom the child is to live; or\n(ii) married to, the civil partner of or the partner of—\n(aa) the child’s mother, father, adopter, guardian, special guardian, foster parent or private foster carer, or\n(bb) a person in whose favour a residence order is in force in respect of the child;\n(cc) a person named in a child arrangements order as a person with whom the child is to live\n(c) has, or expects to have responsibility for the upbringing of the child.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (with saving) (30.6.2014) by The Flexible Working Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1398), reg. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1) inserted (6.4.2007) by The Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/3314), regs. 1, 4(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 3(1)(b) substituted (1.10.2007) by The Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2286), regs. 1, 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1)(b)(i) inserted (22.4.2014) by The Child Arrangements Order (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/852), arts. 1, 9(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 3(1)(b)(ii)(cc) inserted (22.4.2014) by The Child Arrangements Order (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/852), arts. 1, 9(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2) omitted (6.4.2007) by virtue of The Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/3314), regs. 1, 4(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 heading inserted (6.4.2007) by The Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/3314), regs. 1, 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 6.4.2003, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3236/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:34:43.944994+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."
}