# The Paternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave (Parental Order Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations))
These Regulations provide new rights to paternity and adoption leave, to curtail adoption leave and to shared parental leave in respect of cases which involve a person who has applied with another person for a parental order under section 54 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 or intends to apply for such an order. Under this section a court may make an order providing for a child of a surrogate mother to be treated as the child of the applicants for the order if certain conditions are satisfied.
These Regulations should be read in conjunction with the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (Application of sections 107A, 107B, 107G, 107I, 112A and 112B to Parental Order Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015 No.100). They should also be read in conjunction with the following regulations, which they modify:
— the Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 (S.R. 2002 No.377);
— the Maternity and Adoption Leave (Curtailment of Statutory Rights to Leave) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015 No.95); and
— the Shared Parental Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015 No.93).
An impact assessment has not been prepared for these Regulations. These Regulations are part of a package of legislative measures and the relevant impacts were assessed within the document ‘Sharing parental rights, extending flexibility at work – public consultation’, published in May 2013 (www.delni.gov.uk/index/consultation-zone/archived-consultations/archived-consultations-2013/working-parents-rights.htm), and supplemented by a further publication in April 2014 (www.delni.gov.uk/index/publications/equality-good-relations/shared-parental-leave-and-pay.htm).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/101/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/paternity-adoption-and-shared-parental-leave-parental-order-cases-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/note
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