Local Government (Wales) Measure 2011

25Newborn absenceW

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(1)This section applies to a member of a local authority who satisfies prescribed conditions—

(a)as to relationship with a newborn, or expected, child, and

(b)as to relationship with the child's mother.

(2)The member is entitled to a period of absence (“newborn absence”) for the purpose of—

(a)caring for the child, or

(b)supporting the mother.

(3)Regulations must include provision for determining—

(a)the extent of a member's entitlement to newborn absence in respect of a child;

(b)when newborn absence may be taken.

F1(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(5)Regulations must require newborn absence to be taken before the end of a prescribed period.

F2(6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(7)Regulations may prescribe circumstances in which a member of a local authority, or the local authority, may—

(a)bring a period of newborn absence to an end, or

(b)cancel a period of newborn absence.

(8)Regulations may—

(a)(for the purpose of subsection (2)) prescribe things which are, or are not, to be taken as done for the purpose of caring for a child or supporting the child's mother;

(b)allow a member to choose, subject to prescribed restrictions, the date on which a period of newborn absence starts;

(c)make provision excluding an entitlement to newborn absence in respect of a child where more than one child is born as a result of the same pregnancy;

(d)make provision about how newborn absence may be taken.

F3(9). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(10)In this section—

  • “newborn child” (“plentyn newydd-anedig”) includes a child stillborn after 24 weeks of pregnancy;

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Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I1S. 25 in force at 30.4.2012 by S.I. 2012/1187, art. 2(1)(c)