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13. Leave on grounds of force majeure.

(1) An employee shall be entitled to leave with pay from his or her employment, to be known and referred to in this Act as "force majeure leave", where, for urgent family reasons, owing to an injury to or the illness of a person specified in subsection (2), the immediate presence of the employee at the place where the person is, whether at his or her home or elsewhere, is indispensable.

(2) The persons referred to in subsection (1) are -

(a) a person of whom the employee is the parent or adoptive parent,

(b) the spouse of the employee or a person with whom the employee is living as husband or wife,

(c) a person to whom the employee is in loco parentis,

(d) a brother or sister of the employee,

(e) a parent or grandparent of the employee, and

(f) a person other than one specified in any of paragraphs (a) to (e), who resides with the employee in a relationship of domestic dependency.

(2A) For the purposes of subsection (2)(f) -

(a) a person who resides with an employee is taken to be in a

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