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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maternity-and-parental-leave-etc-regulations-1999/schedule-2/paragraph-9",
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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/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of paragraph 8, a year is the period of twelve months beginning—\n(a) ... on the date on which the employee first became entitled to take parental leave in respect of the child in question, ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nand each successive period of twelve months beginning on the anniversary of that date.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 9(a) omitted (18.2.2026 for specified purposes, 6.4.2026 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of The Employment Rights Act 2025 (Parental and Paternity Leave) (Removal of Qualifying Periods etc.) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/15), regs. 1(2)(3), 4(3)(a)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 2 para. 9(a) omitted (18.2.2026 for specified purposes, 6.4.2026 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of The Employment Rights Act 2025 (Parental and Paternity Leave) (Removal of Qualifying Periods etc.) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/15), regs. 1(2)(3), 4(3)(b)"
    },
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 9(b) omitted (18.2.2026 for specified purposes, 6.4.2026 in so far as not already in force) by virtue of The Employment Rights Act 2025 (Parental and Paternity Leave) (Removal of Qualifying Periods etc.) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/15), regs. 1(2)(3), 4(3)(c)"
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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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