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The Shared Parental Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015
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Periods when shared parental leave may be taken
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7.—(1) Shared parental leave may be taken at any time within the period which begins on the date C is born (or, where more than one child is born as the result of the same pregnancy, the date on which the first child is born) and ends the day before C’s first birthday.
(2) Shared parental leave must be taken in complete weeks.
(3) Shared parental leave may be taken as one continuous period or in discontinuous periods.
(4) The minimum period of shared parental leave which may be taken is one week.
(5) An employee may be absent on shared parental leave in relation to C at the same time that another employee is—
(a)absent on leave provided for in Part 9 of the 1996 Order in relation to C;
(b)in receipt of pay under section 35 or Part 12, 12ZA, or 12ZC of the 1992 Act(1) in relation to C.
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Part 12ZA was inserted by the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2836 (N.I.2)), Article 5.
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