30HEntitlement to adoption leave

30H Entitlement to adoption leave (1) Subject to this Division, an employee is entitled, in respect of the placement of a child with the employee for adoption, to each of the following: (a) an unbroken period of up to 3 weeks of unpaid leave (Division 2 short adoption leave) to enable the employee, or the employee and the employee’s spouse, to care for the child; (b) an unbroken period of up to 52 weeks of unpaid leave (Division 2 long adoption leave) in order to be the child’s primary care-giver. (2) An employer must grant the leave referred to in paragraphs (1) (a) and (b) if each of the following paragraphs apply: (a) the child is to be, or has been, placed with the employee for adoption; (b) as a result of the placement, the employee is to provide, or provides, care for the child; (c) the child will be, at the proposed date of the placement, or was at the date of the placement, as the case requires, under the age of 5 years; (d) the child is not a child or step-child of the employee or the employee’s spouse; (e) the child will not have, at the proposed date of the placement, or had not, at the date of the placement, as the case requires, previously lived with the employee for a continuous period of 6 months or more; (f) it is reasonable to expect that the employee will complete, or the employee had completed, as the case requires, a period of at least 12 months continuous service with the employer on the day before the date of commencement of the leave; (g) the proposed leave complies with regulation 30K; (h) the employee complies with regulations 30M, 30N and 30P.