{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-measure-2011/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-measure-2011/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "mwa/2011/4",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-measure-2011",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Newborn absence",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to a member of a local authority who satisfies prescribed conditions—\n(a) as to relationship with a newborn, or expected, child, and\n(b) as to relationship with the child's mother.\n(2) The member is entitled to a period of absence (“newborn absence”) for the purpose of—\n(a) caring for the child, or\n(b) supporting the mother.\n(3) Regulations must include provision for determining—\n(a) the extent of a member's entitlement to newborn absence in respect of a child;\n(b) when newborn absence may be taken.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Regulations must require newborn absence to be taken before the end of a prescribed period.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) Regulations may prescribe circumstances in which a member of a local authority, or the local authority, may—\n(a) bring a period of newborn absence to an end, or\n(b) cancel a period of newborn absence.\n(8) Regulations may—\n(a) (for the purpose of subsection (2)) prescribe things which are, or are not, to be taken as done for the purpose of caring for a child or supporting the child's mother;\n(b) allow a member to choose, subject to prescribed restrictions, the date on which a period of newborn absence starts;\n(c) make provision excluding an entitlement to newborn absence in respect of a child where more than one child is born as a result of the same pregnancy;\n(d) make provision about how newborn absence may be taken.\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(10) In this section—\n“newborn child” (“plentyn newydd-anedig”) includes a child stillborn after 24 weeks of pregnancy;\n...cred",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 25(4) omitted (21.1.2021) by virtue of Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), ss. 61(3)(a), 175(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 25(6) omitted (21.1.2021) by virtue of Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), ss. 61(3)(b), 175(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 25(9) omitted (21.1.2021) by virtue of Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), ss. 61(3)(c), 175(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 25(10) omitted (21.1.2021) by virtue of Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), ss. 61(3)(d), 175(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 25 in force at 30.4.2012 by S.I. 2012/1187, art. 2(1)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/mwa/2011/4/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:39.148280+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."
}