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Trusts and Trustees (Maternity Leave Trust) (maternityleavetrust)
Table of Provisions (11)
Statutory Text (11 Articles)
L.N. 338 of 2016
TRUSTS AND TRUSTEES ACT
(CAP. 331)
Trusts and Trustees (Maternity Leave Trust)
(Amendment) Regulations, 2016
IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 57 of the Trust
and Trustees Act, the Minister for Finance has made the following
regulations –
The title of these regulations is the Trusts and Trustees Citation.
(Maternity Leave Trust) (Amendment) Regulations, 2016 and they
shall be read and construed as one with the Trusts and Trustees S.L. 331.07
(Maternity Leave Trust) Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the
principal regulations".
The title of the principal regulations shall be substituted by Amends the title
the words "Trusts and Trustees (Maternity and Adoption Leave Trust) of
regulations.
Regulations.
In regulation 1 of the principal regulations, the words Amends
"Maternity Leave Trust" shall be substituted by the words "Maternity regulation
the principal
and Adoption Leave Trust".
regulations.
In regulation 3 of the principal regulations
Amends
regulation 3 of
the principal
(a) the words "to be known as the Maternity Leave Trust"
regulations.
shall be substituted by the words "to be known as the Maternity and
Adoption Leave Trust";
(b) in paragraph (b) thereof, the words "receiving maternity
leave contributions" shall be substituted by the words "receiving
maternity and adoption leave contributions"; and
(c) in paragraph (c) thereof, the words "maternity leave
payment" shall be substituted by the words "maternity and adoption
leave payment".
In regulation 4 of the principal regulations, the words Amends
"Maternity Leave Trust" shall be substituted by the words "Maternity regulation
the principal
and Adoption Leave Trust".
regulations.
In sub-regulation (2) of regulation 5 of the principal Amends
regulations, the words "maternity leave" shall be substituted by the regulation
the principal
words "maternity and adoption leave"
regulations.
In paragraph (a) of regulation 9 of the principal
regulations, the words "the payment of the maternity leave" shall be
substituted by the words "the payment of the maternity and of the
adoption leave".
In regulation 10 of the principal regulations, the words
"Maternity Leave Trust" shall be substituted by the words "Maternity
and Adoption Leave Trust".
Immediately after regulation 11 of the principal
regulations, there shall be added the following new regulation 11A
"11A. In accordance with the provisions of the
Adoption Leave National Standard Order, an employee
2016. on adoption leave shall be entitled to the first fourteen
weeks of adoption leave with full wages but if the
employee chooses to avail himself of any additional
adoption leave beyond the fourteen weeks, the employer
shall not be obliged to pay any wages for those weeks of
adoption leave which go beyond the aforementioned
fourteen weeks, without prejudice to any relevant benefit
in respect of any period of adoption leave which goes
beyond fourteen weeks in terms of the Social Security
Act to which the employee may be entitled if he chooses
to avail himself of adoption leave beyond the paid
fourteen weeks.".
In regulation 12 of the principal regulations, the words
"Maternity Leave Trust" shall be substituted by the words "Maternity
and Adoption Leave Trust".
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