The Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Parental Orders and Prospective Adopters) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Application of the Pay Regulations to intended parents and parental order parents

9.  In regulation 11 (conditions of entitlement) of the Pay Regulations as they apply to an intended parent or a parental order parent—

(a) paragraph (1) shall apply as if sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) were omitted and replaced by—

“(a) is an intended parent or parental order parent in relation to the child;

(b) is married to, the civil partner or the partner of Parent A; and

(c) has or expects to have the main responsibility for the upbringing of the child (apart from the responsibility of Parent A).”

(b) paragraph (2) shall read as if the words “the adopter” in both places where those words occur were “Parent A”;

(c) paragraph (2A)(1) shall read as if the words “the adopter” and “the adopter’s” were respectively “Parent A” and “Parent A’s”.

(1)

Inserted by S.R. 2004 No. 132, regulation 2(2)(b).