{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-measure-2011/section-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-measure-2011/section-28.json",
  "legislation": "mwa/2011/4",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-measure-2011",
  "path": "section/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Parental absence",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to a member of a local authority who satisfies prescribed conditions as to—\n(a) having responsibility for a child, or\n(b) expecting to have responsibility for a child.\n(2) The member is entitled to a period of absence (“parental absence”) for the purpose of caring for the child.\n(3) Regulations must include provision for determining—\n(a) the extent of a member's entitlement to parental absence in respect of a child;\n(b) when parental absence may be taken.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Provision under subsection (3)(b) may (amongst other things) refer to—\n(a) a child's age, or\n(b) a prescribed period of time starting from a prescribed event.\n(6) Regulations may prescribe circumstances in which a member of a local authority, or the local authority, may—\n(a) bring a period of parental absence to an end, or\n(b) cancel a period of parental absence.\n(7) 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;\n(b) require parental absence to be taken as a single period of absence in all cases or in prescribed cases;\n(c) require parental absence to be taken as a series of periods of absence in all cases or in prescribed cases;\n(d) require all or prescribed parts of a period of parental absence to be taken at or by prescribed times;\n(e) allow a member to choose, subject to prescribed restrictions, the date on which a period of parental absence starts;\n(f) make provision about the postponement by a local authority of a period of parental absence which a member wishes to take;\n(g) prescribe a minimum or maximum period of absence which may be taken as part of a period of parental absence;\n(h) prescribe a maximum aggregate of periods of parental absence which may be taken during a prescribed period of time.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 28(4) omitted (21.1.2021) by virtue of Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 1), ss. 61(6), 175(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 28 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/28",
    "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."
}