Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Credits) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 and shall come into operation on 5th April 2012.
Amendment of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations
2. In regulation 9C of the Social Security (Credits) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975(1) (credits for adoption pay period and maternity pay period)—
(a)in the heading after “adoption pay period” insert “, additional paternity pay period”;
(b)in paragraph (1)(a) after “paragraph (2)(a)” insert “or (aa)”;
(c)in paragraph (2) after sub-paragraph (a) insert—
“(aa)the additional paternity pay period in respect of which additional statutory paternity pay was paid to a person, or”; and
(d)in paragraph (5)—
(i)after ““adoption pay period”,” insert ““additional paternity pay period”,”, and
(ii)after ““statutory adoption pay”” insert “, “additional statutory paternity pay””.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 9th March 2012
(L.S.)
Anne McCleary
A senior officer of the Department for Social Development