Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2007C00183:clause:1_94zs
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2007C00183
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 94ZS
Character Range: 254941–256714

94ZS  Adoption leave—additional documents

 (1) To be entitled to adoption leave, an employee must give his or her employer documents as required by this section.

 (2) The documents required by this section must be given to the employer:
 (a) before the employee begins the period of adoption leave; or
 (b) if the employee is taking both short and long adoption leave—before the employee begins the period of short adoption leave.

 (3) The employee must give his or her employer the following documents:
 (a) a statement from an adoption agency of the day when the placement is expected to start;
 (b) a statutory declaration in accordance with subsection (4) made by the employee.

 (4) The statutory declaration must state the following:
 (a) whether the employee is taking short adoption leave, long adoption leave, or both;
 (b) the first and last days of the period (or periods) of any other authorised leave taken, or intended to be taken, by the employee because of the placement of the child;
 (c) the first and last days of the period (or periods) of adoption leave, or any other authorised leave of the same type as adoption leave, taken, or intended to be taken, by the employee's spouse because of the placement of the child;
 (d) that the child is an eligible child;
 (e) for any period of long adoption leave to be taken by the employee—that the employee intends to be the child's primary care‑giver at all times while on the long adoption leave;
 (f) that the employee will not engage in any conduct inconsistent with his or her contract of employment while on adoption leave.

Note: The use of personal information given to an employer under this section may be regulated under the Privacy Act 1988.

Subdivision J—Adoption leave: from start to finish