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The Neonatal Care Leave and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2025

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. Part 1 GENERAL

    1. 1.Citation, commencement and extent

    2. 2.Application

    3. 3.Interpretation

  3. Part 2 ENTITLEMENT TO NEONATAL CARE LEAVE

    1. 4.Definition of neonatal care

    2. 5.Entitlement to neonatal care leave

    3. 6.Entitlement to neonatal care leave in special circumstances

    4. 7.Extent of entitlement

    5. 8.Options in respect of neonatal care leave

    6. 9.More than one child in receipt of neonatal care

    7. 10.Notice requirements for neonatal care leave

    8. 11.Commencement of neonatal care leave

    9. 12.Leave which interrupts a period of neonatal care leave

  4. Part 3 TAKING NEONATAL CARE LEAVE

    1. 13.Application of terms and conditions during neonatal care leave

    2. 14.Redundancy during neonatal care leave

    3. 15.Right to return after neonatal care leave

    4. 16.Right to return from neonatal care leave: supplementary

    5. 17.Protection from detriment

    6. 18.Unfair dismissal

    7. 19.Calculation of a weeks pay for the purposes of Chapter 2 Part 14 of the Act

  5. Part 4 CONTRACTUAL RIGHTS

    1. 20.Contractual rights to neonatal care leave

  6. Part 5 AMENDMENTS TO SECONDARY LEGISLATION

    1. 21.The Maternity and Parental Leave etc. Regulations 1999

    2. 22.The Paternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave (Parental Order Cases) Regulations 2014

  7. Signature

    1. Schedule

      NEONATAL CARE LEAVE IN SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

      1. 1.Where, after the employee has accrued entitlement to statutory neonatal...

      2. 2.Where, after C has been placed with the adopter or...

      3. 3.Where, after C has entered Great Britain and the employee...

      4. 4.Where, after the employee has accrued entitlement to neonatal care...

      5. 5.Where this paragraph applies, these regulations apply as if regulation...

      6. 6.(1) Where the parental order does not proceed the modifications...

      7. 7.(1) In paragraphs 4 and 6, the day on which...

  8. Explanatory Note

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