Part 4CONTRACTUAL RIGHTS

Contractual rights to neonatal care leave

term the statutory right + regulation 20 + 20.  Where an employee is entitled to neonatal care leave (referred to in this regulation as “the statutory right”) and also to a right which corresponds to that right and which arises under the employee’s contract of employment or otherwise—

regulation 20 a + (a)the employee may not exercise the statutory right and the corresponding right separately but may, in taking the leave for which the two rights provide, take advantage of whichever right is, in any particular respect, the most favourable, and

regulation 20 b + (b)the provisions of the Act and of these Regulations relating to the statutory right apply, subject to any modifications necessary to give effect to any more favourable contractual terms, to the exercise of the composite right described in paragraph (a) as they apply here to the exercise of the statutory right.