PART 3ENTITLEMENT TO SHARED PARENTAL LEAVE (ADOPTION)
CHAPTER 1Entitlement to leave – general
Periods when shared parental leave may be taken (adoption)23
1
Shared parental leave may be taken at any time within the period which begins on the date C is placed for adoption with A (or, where more than one child is placed for adoption through a single placement, the date of the placement of the first child) and ends the day before the first anniversary of the date on which C was placed for adoption.
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 8 of the 1996 Act in relation to C;
b
in receipt of pay under section 35 or Part 12, 12ZA, 12ZB, or 12ZC of the 1992 Act35 in relation to C.