30QTaking annual leave or long service leave instead of, or in conjunction with, adoption leave

30Q Taking annual leave or long service leave instead of, or in conjunction with, adoption leave If an employee applies to take annual leave, or long service leave, instead of, or in conjunction with, Division 2 short adoption leave or Division 2 long adoption leave in respect of the placement of a child, the employer must grant the annual leave or long service leave if: (a) had this Division not been enacted, the employer would have been obliged to grant it (for example, under some other law of the Commonwealth or of a State or a Territory); or (b) the total of the following does not exceed 52 weeks: (i) the period of annual leave or long service leave; (ii) each period of annual leave, or long service leave, that the employer has already granted to the employee instead of, or in conjunction with, the adoption leave; (iii) each period of adoption leave that the employer has already granted to the employee in respect of the placement; (iv) each period of leave specified under paragraph 30P (3) (c) in the relevant statutory declaration.