15. In regulation 32 (normal weekly earnings of a claimant for statutory shared parental pay) of the Pay Regulations as they apply to an intended parent or a parental order parent, the definition of “the appropriate date” in paragraph (9)(a) shall read as if substituted by—
““the appropriate date” means the first day of the 14th week before the expected week of the child’s birth or the first day in the week in which the child is born, whichever is earlier (but see paragraph (10)).”.