{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parental-bereavement-leave-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2023/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parental-bereavement-leave-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2023/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2023/156",
  "legislation_title": "The Parental Bereavement Leave (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parental-bereavement-leave-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2023",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Options in respect of parental bereavement leave",
  "text": "(1) The minimum period of parental bereavement leave which may be taken by an employee is one week.\n(2) An employee may choose to take either one or two weeks’ parental bereavement leave.\n(3) Where an employee chooses to take two weeks’ parental bereavement leave, the weeks need not be consecutive.\n(4) Parental bereavement leave may be taken at any time within the period of 56 weeks beginning with the first day of bereavement .\n(5) Paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) of this regulation are subject to regulation 8.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 5(4) substituted (26.3.2026) by The Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay (Miscarriage) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 (S.R. 2026/63), regs. 1(1), 4(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in operation at 29.9.2023, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2023/156/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:30:46.366471+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."
}