Parental Leave (Amendment) Act 2006
Number 13 of 2006
PARENTAL LEAVE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2006
REVISED
Updated to 19 July 2019
This revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Parental Leave (Amendment) Act 2006. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
All Acts up to and including Local Government Rates and other Matters Act 2019 (24/2019), enacted 11 July 2019, and all statutory instruments up to and including Parental Leave (Amendment) Act 2019 (Commencement) Order 2019 (S.I. No. 356 of 2019), made 16 July 2019, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.
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Number 13 of 2006
PARENTAL LEAVE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2006
REVISED
Updated to 19 July 2019
Introduction
This revision presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was first passed.
Related legislation
Parental Leave Acts 1998 to 2019: this Act is one of a group of Acts included in this collective citation (Parental Leave (Amendment) Act 2019, s. 8(2)). The Acts in the group are:
• Parental Leave Act 1998 (30/1998)
• Parental Leave (Amendment) Act 2006 (13/2006)
• Parental Leave (Amendment) Act 2019 (11/2019)
Annotations
This Revised Act is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments, statutory instruments made pursuant to the Act and previous affecting provisions.
An explanation of how to read annotations is available at
www.lawreform.ie/annotations.
Material not updated in this revision
Where other legislation is amended by this Act, those amendments may have been superseded by other amendments in other legislation, or the amended legislation may have been repealed or revoked. This information is not represented in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the amended legislation if one is available.
Where legislation or a fragment of legislation is referred to in annotations, changes to this legislation or fragment may not be reflected in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the legislation referred to if one is available.
A list of legislative changes to any Act, and to statutory instruments from 1972, may be found linked from the page of the Act or statutory instrument at
www.irishstatutebook.ie.
Acts which affect or previously affected this revision
• Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2008 (14/2008)
All Acts up to and including Local Government Rates and other Matters Act 2019 (24/2019), enacted 11 July 2019, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision
• Equality, Integration, Disability and Human Rights (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 139 of 2011)
• Equality, Integration, Disability and Human Rights (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. No. 217 of 2010)
All statutory instruments up to and including Parental Leave (Amendment) Act 2019 (Commencement) Order 2019 (S.I. No. 356 of 2019), made 16 July 2019, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Number 13 of 2006
PARENTAL LEAVE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2006
REVISED
Updated to 19 July 2019
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
2. Entitlement to parental leave.
3. Amendment of section 6 of Principal Act.
4. Amendment of section 7 of Principal Act.
5. Amendment of section 8 of Principal Act.
6. Amendment of section 10 of Principal Act.
7. Amendment of section 11 of Principal Act.
8. Amendment of section 13 of Principal Act.
9. Amendment of section 15 of Principal Act.
10. Amendment of section 16 of Principal Act.
Acts Referred to
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1995, No. 2 |
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1998, No. 21 |
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1978, No. 4 |
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1998, No. 30 |
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Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 to 2003 |
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Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977 to 2005 |
Number 13 of 2006
PARENTAL LEAVE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2006
REVISED
Updated to 19 July 2019
AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE PARENTAL LEAVE ACT 1998.
[18th May, 2006]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
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Functions transferred and terms “Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs” and “Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs” construed (1.04.2011) by Equality, Integration, Disability and Human Rights (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 139 of 2011), arts. 2, 3 and sch., in effect as per art. 1(2).
2. (1) The administration and business in connection with the exercise, performance or execution of any functions transferred by Article 3 are transferred to the Department of Justice and Law Reform.
(2) References to the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs contained in any Act or instrument made under such Act and relating to any administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) shall, from the commencement of this Order, be read as references to the Department of Justice and Law Reform.
3. (1) The functions vested in the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs by or under any of the Acts mentioned in the Schedule are transferred to the Minister for Justice and Law Reform.
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(3) References to the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs contained in any Act or instrument made under such Act and relating to any functions transferred by this Article shall, from the commencement of this Order, be read as references to the Minister for Justice and Law Reform.
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SCHEDULE
Article 3(1)
Enactments, functions under which are transferred from the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs to the Minister for Justice and Law Reform
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Parental Leave Acts 1998 and 2006
Editorial Notes:
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Previous affecting provision: functions transferred and terms “Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform” and “Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform” construed (1.06.2010) by Equality, Integration, Disability and Human Rights (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. No. 217 of 2010), arts. 2, 3 and sch., in effect as per art. 1(2); superseded (1.04.2011) by Equality, Integration, Disability and Human Rights (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 139 of 2011) as per C note above.