{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/paternity-and-adoption-leave-regulations-2002/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/paternity-and-adoption-leave-regulations-2002/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2788",
  "legislation_title": "The Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/paternity-and-adoption-leave-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Commencement of leave under regulation 8",
  "text": "(1) Except in the case referred to in paragraph (2), a period of paternity leave under regulation 8 begins and ends—\n(a) on the days or dates specified in a notice given under regulation 10(2)(a), or\n(b) where the employee has given a notice of variation under regulation 10(4) or (7), on the days or dates specified in that notice (or the last such date if the employee has varied the choice more than once).\n(2) In a case where—\n(a) the employee has chosen to begin his period of leave on the date on which the child is placed with the adopter, and\n(b) he is at work on that date,\nthe employee’s period of leave begins on the day after that date.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 11(1) substituted (8.3.2024 with effect from 6.4.2024 in accordance with reg. 5 of the amending S.I.) by The Paternity Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/329), regs. 2, 14 (with reg. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 11 in force at 8.12.2002, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2788/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:40:25.467513+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."
}