6.4
The curtailment notice is binding on you and cannot usually be revoked. You can only revoke a curtailment notice if your adoption leave has not yet ended and one of the following applies: (a) if you realise that neither you nor your partner are in fact eligible for SPL or ShPP, in which case you can revoke the curtailment notice in writing up to eight weeks after it was given;
(b) if your partner has died.
6.5
Once you have revoked a curtailment notice you will be unable to opt back in to the SPL scheme.
7.
ENDING YOUR PARTNER'S ADOPTION LEAVE OR PAY
7.1
If your partner is taking adoption leave or claiming SAP from their employer, you will only be able to take SPL once your partner has either:
(a) returned to work;
(b) given their employer a curtailment notice to end adoption leave; or
(c) given their employer a curtailment notice to end SAP (if they are entitled to SAP but not adoption leave).
8.
EVIDENCE OF ENTITLEMENT
8.1
You must provide on request:
(a) One or more documents from the adoption agency showing the agency's name and address and the expected placement date; and
(b) The name and address of your partner's employer (or a declaration that they have no employer).
9.
BOOKING YOUR SPL DATES
9.1
Having opted into the SPL system, you must book your leave by giving us a period of leave notice. This may be given at the same time as the opt-in notice or later, provided it is at least eight weeks before the start of SPL. The period of leave notice can either give the dates you want to take SPL or, if the child has not been placed with you yet, it can state the number of days after the placement that you want the SPL to start and end. This may be particularly useful if you intend to take paternity leave starting on the date of placement and wish to take SPL straight afterwards.
9.2
9.3
Leave must be taken in blocks of at least one week.
9.4
If your period of leave notice gives dates for a single continuous block of SPL you will be entitled to take the leave set out in the notice.
9.5
If your period of leave notice requests split periods of SPL, with periods of work in between, we will consider your request as set out in paragraph 10, below.
9.6
You can give up to three period of leave notices. This may enable you to take up to three separate blocks of SPL (although if you give a notice to vary or cancel a period of leave this will in most cases count as a further period of leave notice; see paragraph 11).
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