The Education (Specified Work and Registration) (Wales) Regulations 2010

Extension of specified period

6.  Where any person is permitted to carry out work specified in regulation 7 for a specified period by virtue of any of the provisions of Schedule 2, that period will be extended by a period equal to the aggregate of any period or periods during which the person concerned is absent from work–

(a) in exercise of that person's—

(i) right to maternity leave conferred by section 71 or 73 of the 1996 Act(1) or a contract of employment and has the right to return to work by virtue of either of these sections or a contract of employment;

(ii) right to parental leave conferred by section 76 of the 1996 Act;

(iii) right to paternity leave conferred by section 80A, 80AA, 80B or 80BB of the 1996 Act(2); or

(iv) right to adoption leave conferred by section 75A or 75B of the 1996 Act(3); or

(b) because of pregnancy.

(1)

Section 71 was amended by paragraph 31, and section 73 by paragraph 32, of Schedule 1 to the Work and Families Act 2006 (c. 18) and both sections were amended by section 17 of the Employment Act 2002 (c. 22).

(2)

Sections 80A and 80B were inserted by section 1 of the Employment Act 2002 c. 22, and sections 80AA and 80BB (which have not, at the time of making these Regulations, been commenced) were inserted by sections 3 and 4 respectively of the Work and Families Act 2006 c. 18.

(3)

Sections 75A and 75B were inserted by section 3 of the Employment Act 2002 c. 22. Section 75A was amended by paragraph 33 of Schedule 1 to the Work and Families Act 2006. c 18. Section 75B was amended by paragraph 34 of Schedule 1 to the Work and Families Act 2006 c. 18.