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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Published date: 27 July 2016

Paternity Leave and Benefit Act 2016 (No. 11)

Consolidation Status: Updated to reflect all known changes
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Introductory Text
Acts Referred to
Part 1 Preliminary and general (ss. 1-5)
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 1. Short title and commencement
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 2. Interpretation
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 3. Regulations
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 4. Voidance or modification of certain provisions in agreements
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 5. Expenses
Part 2 Paternity Leave (ss. 6-17)
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 6. Entitlement to paternity leave
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 7. Notification to employer
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 8. Allocation of paternity leave
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 9. Commencement of paternity leave (early confinement)
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 10. Postponement of paternity leave
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 11. Postponement of paternity leave in event of sickness of relevant parent
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 12. Postponement of paternity leave in event of hospitalisation of child
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 13. Relevant parent to whom section 16 of Act of 1994 applies
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 14. Relevant parent to whom section 9 of Act of 1995 applies
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 15. Entitlement of employed surviving parent to leave on death of relevant parent
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 16. Abuse of paternity leave
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 17. Maintenance of records
Part 3 Employment protection (ss. 18-26)
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 18. Interpretation (Part 3)
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 19. Preservation or suspension of rights while on paternity leave
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 20. Voidance of certain purported terminations of employment, etc.
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 21. Extension of certain notices of termination of employment or of certain suspensions
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 22. Protection of employees from penalisation
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 23. General right to return to work on expiry of paternity leave
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 24. Notification of intention to return to work
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 25. Postponement of return to work
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 26. Provisions applying where employee not permitted to return to work
Part 4 Resolution of disputes (ss. 27-29)
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 27. Disputes regarding entitlements under Act
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 28. Decision under section 41 or 44 of Act of 2015
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 29. Burden of proof
Part 5 Paternity benefit (ss. 30-31)
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 30. Amendment of section 39 of Act of 2005
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 31. Paternity benefit
Part 6 Miscellaneous (ss. 32-37)
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 32. Amendment of Schedule 3 to Redundancy Payments Act 1967
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 33. Amendment of section 6 of Act of 1977
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 34. Amendment of Act of 1994
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 35. Amendment of Act of 1995
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 36. Amendment of section 126 of Taxes Consolidation Act 1997
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 37. Amendment of Act of 2015
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