The Paternity Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024

Interpretation

4.—(1) In this Part—

“the 2002 Regulations” means the Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations 2002(1);

“the 2003 Regulations” means the Paternity and Adoption Leave (Adoption from Overseas) Regulations 2003(2);

“the 2014 Regulations” means the Paternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave (Parental Order Cases) Regulations 2014(3).

(2) For the purposes of this Part—

(a) “adopter”—

(i) in relation to children who are placed for adoption, has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the 2002 Regulations;

(ii) in relation to adoption from overseas, has the same meaning as in regulation 4(2) of the 2003 Regulations;

(b) the following expressions have the same meanings as in regulation 2(1) of the 2002 Regulations —

(i) “expected week”;

(ii) “paternity leave”;

(iii) “placed for adoption”;

(c) the following expressions have the same meanings as in regulation 4(2) of the 2003 Regulations—

(i) “adoption from overseas”;

(ii) “enter Great Britain”;

(iii) “official notification”;

(d) the following expressions have the same meanings as in regulation 6(a)(iii) of the 2014 Regulations—

(i) “Parent A”;

(ii) “section 54 parental order parent”;

(e) a person is matched with a child for adoption in the circumstances specified in regulation 2(4) of the 2002 Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 2002/2788, amended by S.I. 2005/2114, 2005/275, 2011/1740, 2014/2112, 2014/3206; there are other amendments but none is relevant. Provisions in S.I. 2002/2788 are applied, with modifications, to adoptions from overseas by S.I. 2003/921 and to parental order parents by S.I. 2014/3096.

(2)

S.I. 2003/921, amended by S.I. 2005/2114, 2011/1740, 2014/3092 and S.S.I. 2011/159.

(3)

S.I. 2014/3096, amended by S.I. 2018/1413.