Holidays (Bereavement Leave for Miscarriage) Amendment Bill (No 2)

  • enacted
4 Section 69 amended (Bereavement leave)

(1)

In section 69(2)(b), replace “result of the death.” with “result of the death; or”.

(2)

In section 69(2), after paragraph (b), insert:

(c)

on the unplanned end of an employee’s confirmed pregnancy by way of a miscarriage or still-birth; or

(d)

on the unplanned end of an employee’s spouse or partner’s confirmed another person’s pregnancy, by way of a miscarriage or still-birth, if the employee—

(i)

is the person’s spouse or partner; or

(ii)

is the person’s former spouse or partner and would have been a biological parent of a child born as a result of the pregnancy; or

(iii)

had undertaken to be the primary carer (as described in section 7(1)(c) of the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987) of a child born as a result of the pregnancy; or

(iv)

is the spouse or partner of a person who had undertaken to be the primary carer of a child born as a result of the pregnancy.

(3)

After section 69(3), insert:

(4)

In this section,—

miscarriage has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 1995 means the end of a pregnancy in the first 20 weeks of pregnancy other than as a result of abortion services provided in accordance with the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Act 1977

still-birth has the same meaning as in section 2 means a still-birth within the meaning of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 1995 other than as a result of abortion services provided in accordance with the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Act 1977.