Statutory Instruments
Terms And Conditions Of Employment
Made
24th March 2010
Coming into force
6th April 2010
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 80BB(10) of the Employment Rights Act 1996(1).
In accordance with section 236(3) of the Employment Rights Act 1996(2), a draft of these Regulations was laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.
1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Employment Rights Act 1996 (Application of Section 80BB to Adoptions from Overseas) Regulations 2010 and shall come into force on 6th April 2010.
2.-(1) Section 80BB of the Employment Rights Act 1996 shall have effect in relation to adoptions from overseas with the modifications of the provisions specified in the first column of the Schedule to these Regulations that are set out opposite those provisions in the second column of that Schedule.
(2) In these Regulations-
"adoption from overseas" means the adoption of a child who enters Great Britain from outside the United Kingdom in connection with or for the purposes of adoption which does not involve the placement of a child for adoption under the law of any part of the United Kingdom.
Pat McFadden
Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
24th March 2010
Regulation 2(1)
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Section 80BB of the Employment Rights Act 1996 contains the powers under which the Secretary of State may make regulations entitling an employee adopting a child under the law of any part of the United Kingdom to additional paternity leave.
These Regulations, made under section 80BB(10) of that Act, provide for section 80BB to have effect, with modifications, in relation to adoptions from overseas. An overseas adoption is the adoption of child who enters Great Britain from outside the United Kingdom in connection with or for the purposes of an adoption which does not involve the placement of the child for adoption under the law of any part of the United Kingdom.
1996 c. 18; section 80BB was inserted by the Work and Families Act 2006 (c.18), section 4.
Section 236(3) was amended by the Employment Relations Act 1999 (c.26), Part 3 of Schedule 4, paragraphs 5 and 42, and further amended by the Work and Families Act 2006, Schedule 1, paragraph 44.