Instructions: please read all of this before filling in the form Throughout this form, references: • to the ‘Adopter’ mean you; and • to the ‘child’ mean the child (whether or not yet placed with you for adoption) in respect of whom you are seeking to exercise shared parental leave/pay rights. Throughout this form, references to the ‘Adopter's Partner’ mean the other person involved in the shared parental leave/pay arrangements, who will be: • married to you; or • your civil partner; or • your ‘partner’. In this context, ‘partner’ means a person who lives with you, and will live with the child, in an 'enduring family relationship', but is not your child, parent (including adoptive or former adoptive parents), grandchild, grandparent, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, aunt, uncle, niece or nephew. In all cases, you must complete all the entries in section A, and the two section A declarations must be signed (you must sign the section A Adopter’s declaration and the Adopter's Partner must sign the section A Adopter's Partner’s declaration). If you wish to take shared parental leave: