{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/paternity-and-adoption-leave-amendment-regulations-2014/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/paternity-and-adoption-leave-amendment-regulations-2014/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2112",
  "legislation_title": "The Paternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/paternity-and-adoption-leave-amendment-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In regulation 8 (entitlement to paternity leave: adoption)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), for “An” substitute “Subject to paragraph (1A), an”;\n(b) after paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1A) An employee is not entitled to be absent from work under paragraph (1) if the employee–\n(a) has taken any shared parental leave in respect of the child; or\n(b) has exercised a right to take time off under section 57ZJ of the 1996 Act in respect of the child.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5(a) in force at 1.12.2014, see reg. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Reg. 5(b) in force at 1.12.2014 for specified purposes, see reg. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Reg. 5(b) in force at 5.4.2015 in so far as not already in force, see reg. 1(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2112/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:06:45.614668+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."
}