{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shared-parental-leave-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shared-parental-leave-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/93",
  "legislation_title": "The Shared Parental Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shared-parental-leave-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Employment\nWork And Families\nMade 2nd March 2015\nComing into operation 15th March 2015\nThe Department for Employment and Learning makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 70C(2), 107E, 107F(1), (4), (7) to (14), and (16), 107G(1) to (6), 107H(1) and (3), 107(I)(1), (4), (7) to (14), and (16), 107K(1), (4), and (5), 107L, 107M(1) and 131 of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1919 (N.I. 16). Article 70C was inserted by the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2790 (N.I. 9)), Schedule 4, Part 3, paragraph 3 and amended for relevant purposes by 2015 c. 1 (N.I.), Schedule 1, paragraph 4(5). Articles 107E to 107M were inserted by 2015 c. 1 (N.I.), section 2. Article 131 was inserted by the Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/2790 (N.I. 9)), Schedule 4, Part 3, paragraph 8, and amended for relevant purposes by the Work and Families Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 1), Schedule 1, paragraph 16."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations applied in part (with modifications) (15.3.2015) by The Paternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave (Parental Order Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/101), regs. 5, 20-33 (as amended (3.1.2019) by The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (Remedial) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1413), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Regulations applied in part (with modifications) (5.4.2015) by The Shared Parental Leave and Paternity and Adoption Leave (Adoptions from Overseas) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/98), regs. 7-21"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Regulations: amendment to earlier affecting provision S.I. 2014/3095, reg. 2 (3.1.2019) by The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (Remedial) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1413), art. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/93/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:19.258971+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."
}