The Maternity and Parental Leave etc. (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Contents

1Citation and commencement#

(1)These Regulations may be cited as the Maternity and Parental Leave etc. (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015.

(2)This regulation and regulations 2 and 5 come into operation on 15th March 2015.

(3)Regulations 3, 4 and 6 come into operation on 5th April 2015.

2Amendments to the Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999#

The Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 are amended as follows.

3Amendments to the Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999#

In regulation 13, omit paragraph (1A).

4Amendments to the Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999#

For regulation 15 (when parental leave may be taken) substitute—“15 An employee may not exercise any entitlement to parental leave in respect of a child after the date of the child’s 18th birthday.”

5Amendments to the Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999#

In paragraph (1) of regulation 18 (right to return after maternity or parental leave), for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—“b the last of two or more consecutive periods of statutory leave which did not include—i any period of parental leave of more than four weeks; orii any period of statutory leave which when added to any other period of statutory leave (excluding parental leave) taken in relation to the same child means that the total amount of statutory leave taken in relation to that child totals more than 26 weeks,”

6Amendments to the Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999#

In paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 (default provisions in respect of parental leave)—

(a)in sub-paragraph (b) omit “and”;

(b)omit sub-paragraph (c).

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