{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/paternity-and-adoption-leave-regulations-2002/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/paternity-and-adoption-leave-regulations-2002/regulation-19.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/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Application of terms and conditions during ordinary adoption leave and additional adoption leave",
  "text": "(1) An employee who takes ordinary adoption leave or additional adoption leave—\n(a) is entitled, during the period of leave, to the benefit of all of the terms and conditions of employment which would have applied if he had not been absent, and\n(b) is bound, during that period, by any obligations arising under those terms and conditions, subject only to the exceptions in sections 75A(3)(b) and 75B(4)(b) of the 1996 Act.\n(2) In paragraph (1)(a), “terms and conditions of employment” has the meaning given by sections 75A(4) and 75B(5) of the 1996 Act, and accordingly does not include terms and conditions about remuneration.\n(3) For the purposes of sections 75A and 75B of the 1996 Act, only sums payable to an employee by way of wages or salary are to be treated as remuneration.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(1) inserted (23.7.2008 with effect from 5.10.2008 in accordance with reg. 2 of the amending S.I.) by The Maternity and Parental Leave etc. and the Paternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1966), regs. 1, 9(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(1)(b) substituted (23.7.2008 with effect from 5.10.2008 in accordance with reg. 2 of the amending S.I.) by The Maternity and Parental Leave etc. and the Paternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1966), regs. 1, 9(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(2) substituted (23.7.2008 with effect from 5.10.2008 in accordance with reg. 2 of the amending S.I.) by The Maternity and Parental Leave etc. and the Paternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1966), regs. 1, 9(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19(3) substituted (23.7.2008 with effect from 5.10.2008 in accordance with reg. 2 of the amending S.I.) by The Maternity and Parental Leave etc. and the Paternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1966), regs. 1, 9(1)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 19 heading inserted (23.7.2008 with effect from 5.10.2008 in accordance with reg. 2 of the amending S.I.) by The Maternity and Parental Leave etc. and the Paternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1966), regs. 1, 9(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 19 in force at 8.12.2002, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 75A was inserted by section 3 of the Employment Act 2002."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2788/regulation/19",
    "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."
}