Work and Families Act 2006

  1. Introduction

  2. Summary

  3. Background

  4. Territorial Extent

  5. Commentary on Sections

    1. Section 1: Maternity pay period

    2. Section 2: Adoption pay period

    3. Section 3: Additional paternity leave: birth

    4. Section 4: Additional paternity leave: adoption

    5. Section 5: Rights during and after additional paternity leave

    6. Section 6: Entitlement to additional statutory paternity pay: birth

    7. Section 7: Entitlement to additional statutory paternity pay: adoption

    8. Section 8: Entitlement to additional statutory paternity pay: general

    9. Section 9: Liability to make payments of additional statutory paternity pay

    10. Section 10: Additional statutory paternity pay: rate and period of pay

    11. Section 11: Leave and pay related to birth or adoption

    12. Section 12: Flexible working

    13. Section 13: Annual leave

    14. Section 14: Increasing the maximum amount of a week’s pay for certain purposes

    15. Section 15: Repeals

    16. Section 17: Corresponding provision for Northern Ireland

    17. Section 18: Financial provisions

  6. Commentary on Schedules

    1. Schedule 1 – Leave and pay related to birth or adoption: further amendments

    2. Schedule 2 - Repeals

  7. Commencement

    1. Hansard References