26. In the case of entitlement to statutory paternity pay or statutory adoption pay under section 167ZB or 167ZL of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 as those sections apply to an intended parent or to a parental order parent(1)—
(a)paragraph (3)(b)(ii) of regulation 11 (provision of information) of the Administration Regulations shall read as if the words from “the end of the seven day period that starts on the date on which the adopter is notified of having been matched with the child” were—
“the day the employee gave notice of the employee’s intended absence or the end of the fifteenth week before the expected week of birth, whichever is later;”;
(b)paragraph (4) and (5) of that regulation shall not apply.
Section 167ZB and 167ZL of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 are modified in so far as they apply to parental order cases by S.R. 2015 No. 90.