PART IIIADOPTION LEAVE

Additional adoption leave: entitlement, duration and commencement20

1

An employee is entitled to additional adoption leave in respect of a child if–

a

the child was placed with him for adoption,

b

he took ordinary adoption leave in respect of the child, and

c

his ordinary adoption leave period did not end prematurely under regulation 22(2)(a) or 24.

2

Subject to regulations 22 and 24, an employee’s additional adoption leave period is a period of 26 weeks beginning on the day after the last day of his ordinary adoption leave period.