Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (Health and Social Care Employees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 and come into operation on 3rd October 2010.
(2) In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;
“additional statutory paternity pay” means additional statutory paternity pay payable in accordance with the provisions of Part 12ZA of the Act where the conditions specified in section 167ZEA(2) or 167ZEB(2) are satisfied(1);
“additional statutory paternity pay period” means the period, determined in accordance with section 167ZEE of the Act(2) and with regulations(3) made under that section, as the period in respect of which additional statutory paternity pay is payable;
“Regional Health and Social Care Board” means the body established under Article 7 of the Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009(4);
(3) References in these Regulations to Part 12ZA of the Act are references to sections 167ZEA to 167ZEE and, in so far as they concern additional statutory paternity pay, to sections 167ZF to 167ZJ of the Act.
Part 12ZA was inserted by Article 5 of the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002. Sections 167ZEA and 167ZEB were inserted into Part 12ZA by Articles 8 and 9 of the Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1947 (N.I. 16)).
Section 167ZEE was inserted by Article 12 of the Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006.
The regulations referred to are the Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010 No. 300) and the Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (Adoptions from Overseas) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010 No. 298).