- Made under
- Employment Rights Act 1996
- Enforced by
- Employment Tribunal
- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Regulated
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
Employee — also bound by 189 other Acts
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.
General
0 of 6 sections shown6 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Amendments to the Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations 2002
0 of 10 sections shown10 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Amendments to the Paternity and Adoption Leave (Adoption from Overseas) Regulations 2003
1 of 4 sections shown- Employees must give required paternity leave notices for overseas adoptionEmployee
3 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Amendments to the Paternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave (Parental Order Cases) Regulations 2014
0 of 5 sections shown5 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Help complying
Guvnor’s practical routes through this instrument.
Resolve a Shared Parental Leave dispute: curtailment, eligibility, refused bookings
Problem-path for employers facing an SPL dispute — sort the right forum (HMRC, Employment Tribunal, or ERA 1996 §99 detriment), test the …
Family leave fast-path: handle a leave request this week
An employee has just given you a family leave notice. Use this fast-path to identify which statutory scheme applies, confirm eligibility, and …
Setting up Shared Parental Leave for the first time
A learning path for first-time employers building paternity, adoption and Shared Parental Leave policies from scratch. Walks you through scoping the policy, …
Handle statutory paternity leave and pay (post-2024 rules)
Step-by-step task guide for processing a statutory paternity leave and pay request under the post-6-April-2024 regime (SI 2024/329). Covers eligibility, the 28-day …
Statutory family leave and pay rates 2026/27 (paternity, adoption, SPL/ShPP)
Quick lookup of statutory paternity, adoption and shared parental leave entitlements and pay rates for the 2026/27 tax year. For the underlying …
Connected legislation
The wider family of instruments made under the same parent Act.
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.