Section 80EI: Chapter 5: supplemental

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

Part VIII: — CHAPTER 5: Neonatal care leave

Regulations under section 80EF may—

specify circumstances where neonatal care is to be regarded as continuous despite an interruption;
make provision about notices to be given, evidence to be produced and other procedures to be followed by employees and employers;
make provision requiring employers or employees to keep records;
make provision for the consequences of failure to give notices, to produce evidence, to keep records or to comply with other procedural requirements;
make provision for the consequences of failure to act in accordance with a notice given by virtue of paragraph (b);
make special provision for cases where an employee has a right which corresponds to a right under section 80EF and which arises under the person's contract of employment or otherwise;
make provision modifying the effect of Chapter 2 of Part 14 (calculation of a week's pay) in relation to an employee who is or has been absent from work on leave under section 80EF;
make provision applying, modifying or excluding an enactment, in such circumstances as may be specified and subject to any conditions which may be specified, in relation to a person entitled to take leave under section 80EF;
make different provision for different cases or circumstances;
make consequential provision.

The cases or circumstances mentioned in subsection (1)(i) include—

more than one child (with whom an employee has a parental or other personal relationship) receiving neonatal care in specified circumstances;
a child receiving neonatal care on two or more separate occasions;

and regulations may, in particular, make special provision regarding the applicability and extent of the entitlement to leave in such circumstances.

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