Clause 19

by inserting, immediately after the words “subsections (2),” in subsection (1), “(2A),”;

by inserting, immediately after the word “subsections” in subsection (2), “(2A),”; (c)by inserting, immediately after subsection (2), the following subsection:“(2A) Where, during a relevant period that starts in a calendar year (called the first calendar year) and ends in another calendar year (called the second calendar year), an employee takes any childcare leave under subsection (1), the Government may permit the employer to treat the childcare leave as being taken in either the first calendar year or second calendar year for the purpose of a claim under subsection (2).”;

by deleting the words “and (2)” in subsection (3) and substituting the words “, (2) and (2A)”; (e)by deleting the words “taken by the employee in any calendar year” in subsection (3) and substituting the words “taken or treated as taken by the employee in any calendar year”; and

by deleting the words “taken by the employee in that calendar year” in subsection (3) and substituting the words “taken or treated as taken by the employee in that calendar year”.