The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Entitlement of adopter’s partner to statutory shared parental pay (adoption) in the event of the death of adopter before curtailment

7.—(1) In a case where A dies before the end of A’s adoption pay period in respect of C and without reducing that period under section 167ZN(2A) of the 1992 Act(1) then these Regulations apply in respect of any period after A dies, subject to the modifications in the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2) In regulation 2 a person is to be regarded as falling within the definition of AP if that person would have done so but for the fact that A had died.

(3) In regulation 18 (entitlement of partner to statutory shared parental pay (adoption))—

(a) paragraph (3)(d) shall not apply;

(b) in the case where A dies before A’s adoption pay period in respect of C starts, then the condition in paragraph (3)(c) shall be taken to be satisfied if it would have been satisfied but for the fact that A had died.

(4) In regulation 20 (notification and evidential requirements relating to partner)—

(a) paragraph (1)(a) shall apply as if it read—

“(a) paragraphs (2) and (3) at least 8 weeks before the beginning of the first period specified by AP pursuant to paragraph (2)(d) or, where it is not reasonably practicable for AP to satisfy this requirement, as soon as reasonably practicable after the death of A, but in any event before that week;”;

(b) paragraph (1)(b) and (c) shall not apply;

(c) in paragraph (2)—

(i) sub-paragraph (a) shall apply as if the words “disregarding any intention of A to claim statutory shared parental pay (adoption) in respect of C” were omitted;

(ii) sub-paragraph (c) shall not apply;

(d) in paragraph (3)—

(i) sub-paragraph (a) shall not apply;

(ii) sub-paragraph (d) shall apply as if it read—

“(d) the following information about AP and A—

(i) AP’s name, A’s name and national insurance number (where this number is known to AP), A’s address immediately before A died and the date of A’s death; and

(ii) the start date of A’s adoption pay period in respect of C;”;

(iii) sub-paragraph (e)(iii) shall not apply;

(e) paragraph (4) shall not apply.

(5) In regulation 21 (variation), in paragraph (3)—

(a) sub-paragraph (a) shall apply as if the reference to A were omitted;

(b) sub-paragraph (b) shall not apply.

(6) In regulation 22 (extent of entitlement), paragraph (1)(a) shall apply as if the number of weeks referred to is the number of weeks in which statutory adoption pay was payable to A in respect of C up to the time of A’s death.

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Section 167ZN(2A) was inserted by 2015 c. 1 (N.I.), section 6(6).