Clause 3 - Adoption Leave
Employment Bill
12:45 pm
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
That line of argument will not get the Minister very far because new section 80B supplies a more precise definition that relates to paternity leave in the case of adoption. It states that regulations will specify conditions
''as to relationship with a child placed, or expected to be placed, for adoption . . . and . . . as to relationship with a person with whom the child is, or is expected to be, so placed for adoption''.
In that part of the Bill, it has been possible to be much more specific and it was not considered to be a problem that the forthcoming Adoption and Children Bill would necessitate a change of wording.