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Enforced by: HMRC, Employment Tribunal
Status: Amended (in force with amendments)
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Employer2 Employee2

Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.

Employer — also bound by 682 other Acts

The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations 2003 241 duties

Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 120 duties

TULRCA 1992 72 duties

Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 54 duties

Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (current NI employment law) 53 duties

Employee — also bound by 189 other Acts

Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 (Air Operations) 18 duties

Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (current NI employment law) 13 duties

The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations 2003 11 duties

Shared Parental Leave Regulations 2014 10 duties

Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations 2002 9 duties

What it requires

Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

Part 1

GENERAL

0 of 3 sections shown

3 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.001 Citation and commencement

s.002 Interpretation

s.003 Application

Part 2

MATERNITY LEAVE

3 of 10 sections shown

s.004 Entitlement to ordinary maternity leave and to additional maternity leave Regulated

Manage employee maternity leave notifications and evidenceEmployer

s.008 Compulsory maternity leave Regulated

Ensure employees do not work during compulsory maternity leaveEmployee

s.010 Redundancy : pregnancy and maternity leave Regulated

Offer alternative employment to protected employees facing redundancyEmployer

7 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.005 Entitlement to additional maternity leave

s.006 Commencement of maternity leave periods

s.007 Duration of maternity leave periods

s.009 Application of terms and conditions during ordinary maternity leave and additional maternity leave

s.011 Requirement to notify intention to return during a maternity leave period

s.012 Requirement to notify intention to return after additional maternity leave

s.work during maternity leave period Work during maternity leave period

Part 3

PARENTAL LEAVE

1 of 5 sections shown

s.review Review Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Secretary of State must review parental leave regulations and publish reportsCrown / Minister / Government department

4 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.013 Entitlement to parental leave

s.014 Extent of entitlement

s.015 When parental leave may be taken

s.016 Default provisions in respect of parental leave

Part 4

PROVISIONS APPLICABLE IN RELATION TO MORE THAN ONE KIND OF ABSENCE

0 of 7 sections shown

7 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional

s.017 Application of terms and conditions during periods of leave

s.018 Right to return after maternity or parental leave

s.019 Protection from detriment

s.020 Unfair dismissal

s.021 Contractual rights to maternity or parental leave

s.022 Calculation of a week’s pay

s.incidents of the right to return Incidents of the right to return

Schedules

1 of 13 shown

s.sch002 Where regulation 13(1A) applies, and the employee’s entitlement to parental... Regulated

Tell the employer about earlier employment before parental leaveEmployee

12 other schedules

s.sch001 An agreement is a workforce agreement for the purposes of...

s.sch001 For the purposes of this Schedule— “a particular group" is...

s.sch001 The requirements concerning elections referred to in paragraph 2 are...

s.sch002 An employee may not exercise any entitlement to parental leave...

s.sch002 The evidence to be produced for the purpose of paragraph...

s.sch002 Except in a case where paragraph 4 or 5 applies,...

s.sch002 Where the employee is the father of the child in...

s.sch002 Where the child in respect of whom the leave is...

s.sch002 An employer may postpone a period of parental leave where—...

s.sch002 An employee may not take parental leave in a period...

s.sch002 An employee may not take more than four weeks’ leave...

s.sch002 For the purposes of paragraph 8, a year is the...

Help complying

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