Adoptive Leave Act, 1995

PART II

Adoptive Leave

Entitlement of employed adopting mother (or sole male adopter) to a minimum period of adoptive leave.

6.—Subject to this Part, an employed adopting mother (or sole male adopter) shall be entitled to leave, referred to in this Act as “adoptive leave”, from her employment for a period (“the minimum period of adoptive leave”), beginning on the day of placement, of not less than 10 consecutive weeks, or such other period as the Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Social Welfare and the Minister for Finance, by order prescribe.