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Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987

Payment for parental leave - Restrictions on parental leave payments

71F: Subsequent parental leave payments

You could also call this:

“There's a waiting time between getting parental leave money for different children”

You can’t get parental leave payments for a new child if it hasn’t been at least 6 months since you finished getting payments for another child. Also, you can’t get payments more than once for the same child. This is to make sure there’s enough time between payments and to stop people from getting paid twice for one child.

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Part 7A Payment for parental leave
Restrictions on parental leave payments

71FSubsequent parental leave payments

  1. A person is not entitled to a parental leave payment in respect of a child if—

  2. fewer than 6 months have elapsed after the end of the period for which the person received a parental leave payment for another child; or
    1. section 71D(2) applies (which prevents a person receiving parental leave payments more than once in respect of the same child).

      Notes
      • Section 71F: replaced, on , by section 60 of the Parental Leave and Employment Protection Amendment Act 2016 (2016 No 8).