6.—(1) In regulation 7 (entitlement to shared parental pay where person has worked in an EEA State), for paragraph (2) substitute—
“(2) A person who—
(a)is an employee or treated as an employee under regulation 5;
(b)in the week in which the adopter received the official notification was in employed earner’s employment with an employer in Northern Ireland; and
(c)had in any week within the period of 26 weeks immediately preceding that week been employed by the same employer in another EEA State,
shall be treated for the purposes of sections 167ZW and 167ZX of the Act (entitlement to shared parental pay: adoption) as modified by the Application Regulations as having been employed in employed earner’s employment in those weeks in which the person was so employed in the other EEA State.”.