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Paternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

S.R. 2004/116 · Made 15 March 2004

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EMPLOYMENT

Made 15th March 2004

Coming into operation 6th April 2004

The Department for Employment and Learningf1 in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 107A(7), 107B(8) and 107D(1) of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996f2, and now vested in itf3, and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

Formerly the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment; see 2001 c. 15 (N.I.)

f2

S.I. 1996 No. 1919 (N.I. 16); Articles 107A to 107D were inserted by Article 3 of the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2836 (N.I. 2))

f3

See S.R. 1999 No. 481 Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Amendments to the Principal Regulations
  3. 3Amendments to the Principal Regulations
  4. 4Amendments to the Principal Regulations
  5. Signature
  6. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Paternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2004.

(2)

In these Regulations “the Principal Regulations” means the Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002f1.

2Amendments to the Principal Regulations

The Principal Regulations shall be amended as provided in regulations 3 and 4.

3Amendments to the Principal Regulations

Omit paragraph (3)(b) of regulation 17 (Notice and evidential requirements for ordinary adoption leave).

4Amendments to the Principal Regulations

In paragraph (b) of regulation 27(1) (Incidents of the right to return from adoption leave) omit “as to remuneration”.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Employment and Learning on 15th March 2004.

L.S.

R. B. Gamble

A senior officer of the

Department for Employment and Learning

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend provisions relating to adoption leave in the Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 (“the Principal Regulations”). Regulation 3 removes the provision enabling an employer to request the name and date of birth of a child in respect of whom leave is taken (regulation 17(3) of the Principal Regulations). Regulation 4 amends regulation 27 of the Principal Regulations to provide that all terms and conditions applying in relation to an employee returning to work from adoption leave, not just those relating to remuneration, are to be not less favourable than those which would have applied if the employee had not been absent.