Government amendment No. 138:

In page 139, to delete lines 18 to 29 and substitute the following:

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1. S.I. No. 231 of 2000 European Communities (Parental Leave) Regulations 2000 The following Regulation is substituted for Regulation 8: “8.An adjudication officer within the meaning of the Workplace Relations Act 2014or the Labour Court may, if the adjudication officer or the Labour Court, as the case may be, considers it reasonable to do so, having regard to the illness or other incapacity of an employee entitled to parental leave by virtue of Regulation 3 or any other circumstance, direct that the leave be taken at a time other than a time that accords with Regulation 4.”.

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