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The Maternity Leave, Adoption Leave and Shared Parental Leave (Amendment) Regulations 2024

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3.—(1) The amendments of the 1999 Regulations made by regulation 4 have effect where the employee’s statutory maternity leave period ends on or after 6th April 2024 unless paragraph (2) applies.

(2) This paragraph applies to the amendments made by regulation 4 that make provision for the protected period of pregnancy (regulation 10(1)(a) and (1A) of the 1999 Regulations), which have effect where the employer is informed of the pregnancy on or after 6th April 2024 in accordance with regulation 10(1A) of the 1999 Regulations.

(3) The amendments of the 2002 Regulations made by regulation 5 have effect where the employee’s statutory adoption leave period ends on or after 6th April 2024.

(4) The amendments of the 2014 Regulations made by regulation 7 have effect where the employee’s shared parental leave ends on or after 6th April 2024 unless paragraph (5) applies.

(5) This paragraph applies to the amendments made by regulation 7 that make provision for the additional protected period (regulation 39(1)(b), (1A) and (1B) of the 2014 Regulations), which have effect where—

(a)the employee has taken a period of at least six consecutive weeks of shared parental leave, in accordance with regulation 39(1A) of the 2014 Regulations, and

(b)the first day of that period of leave is on or after 6th April 2024.

(6) In this regulation—

“shared parental leave” has the same meaning as in the 2014 Regulations(1);

“statutory adoption leave period” has the same meaning as in the 2002 Regulations(2);

“statutory maternity leave period” has the same meaning as in the 1999 Regulations(3).

(1)

For the definition of shared parental leave, see regulation 3(1) of S.I. 2014/3050.

(2)

For the definition of “statutory adoption leave period”, see regulation 2(1) of S.I. 2002/2788 as amended by S.I. 2006/2014.

(3)

For the definition of “statutory maternity leave period”, see regulation 2(1) of S.I. 1999/3312 as amended by S.I. 2006/2014.

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