The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 No. 121

PART 2 PATERNITY LEAVE AND PATERNITY PAY PAYMENTS

Amendments relating to paternity leave and paternity pay: employment and support allowance

8.  In regulation 2(1) of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (interpretation) after the definition of “passenger” insert—

““paternity leave” means a period of absence from work on ordinary paternity leave by virtue of Article 112A or 112B of the Employment Rights Order or on additional paternity leave by virtue of Article 112AA or 112BB of that Order;”;.