{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2003/schedule",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2249",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2003",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Regulations\nAmendment\n9(7), 18(2)\nAfter each occurrence of “maternity” insert “or adoption”.\n17(2), 21(6A), 55(9), 79(6)\nAfter each occurrence of “maternity” insert “, paternity or adoption”.\n17(3A)\nAfter both occurrences of “ordinary maternity leave” insert “, ordinary adoption leave or paternity leave” and after “statutory maternity” insert “, paternity or adoption”.\nSchedule 1\n(1) Before “Ordinary maternity leave” insert\n““Ordinary adoption leave” means leave under section 75A of the Employment Rights Act 1996;”;\n(2) Before “Payment in lieu of contributions” insert\n““Paternity leave” means leave under regulations 4 or 8 of the Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations 2002;”; and\n(3) For the words ““Period of maternity absence”” to “return to work” substitute\n““Period of maternity, paternity or adoption absence” means any period throughout which a member is absent from duty because he is exercising his right to take maternity, paternity or adoption leave in accordance with sections 71, 73, 75A or 75B of the Employment Rights Act 1996 or regulations 4 or 8 of the Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations 2002”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 18, as inserted by section 3 of the Employment Act 2002 (2002 c. 22)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/2788."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 75B was inserted by section 3 of the Employment Act 2002."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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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