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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maternity-and-parental-leave-etc-regulations-1999/schedule-2/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3312",
  "legislation_title": "The Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maternity-and-parental-leave-etc-regulations-1999",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "An employee may not take parental leave in a period other than the period which constitutes a week’s leave for him under regulation 14 or a multiple of that period, except in a case where the child in respect of whom leave is taken is entitled to a disability living allowance , armed forces independence payment or personal independence payment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 7 inserted (8.4.2013) by The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces Compensation Scheme (Consequential Provisions: Subordinate Legislation) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/591), art. 2(2), Sch. para. 16(5)(b)"
    },
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 7 inserted (8.4.2013) by The Personal Independence Payment (Supplementary Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/388), reg. 2, Sch. para. 22(5)(b)"
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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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