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PART 9Right to request flexible working

131Removal of requirement to be a carer

(1)In section 80F(1) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (conditions for exercising right to request flexible working), paragraph (b) (condition that employee’s purpose be to enable caring for a child or adult) is repealed.

(2)Section 80F is further amended as follows—

(a)in subsection (1), the “and” following paragraph (a) is repealed;

(b)in subsection (2), after paragraph (b) there is inserted “and”;

(c)in subsection (2), paragraph (d) and the “and” preceding it are repealed;

(d)subsection (10) is repealed.