Section 80EE: Application in relation to stillbirths

Employment Rights Act 1996 · 1996 c. 18View on legislation.gov.uk

Part VIII: — CHAPTER 4: Parental bereavement leave Bereavement leave

In this Chapter—

references to a child include a child stillborn after twenty-four weeks of pregnancy, and
references to the death of a child are to be read, in relation to a stillborn child, as references to the birth of the child.

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