ScheduleNEONATAL CARE LEAVE IN SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

schedule paragraph 6 + 6.—(1) Where the parental order does not proceed the modifications set out at sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) below apply to the employee in relation to any qualifying period C spends in neonatal care beginning with the day after the day on which the parental order does not proceed.

(2) The employee is to be regarded as falling within the definition of “partner” in regulation 5(2)(a)(iii) if they fell within the definition on the day before the day the parental order does not proceed.

(3) In paragraph (2) of regulation 5 substitute “on the day before the day the parental order does not proceed” for “at the time of C’s birth” for the purpose of satisfying the condition in sub-paragraph (b).