The Shared Parental Leave and Paternity and Adoption Leave (Adoptions from Overseas) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

PART 2 Application of the Curtailment Regulations

Application of the Curtailment Regulations to adoptions from overseas

3.—(1) The provisions of the Curtailment Regulations, insofar as they provide for the curtailment of statutory adoption leave, apply to adoptions from overseas, subject to the modifications set out in paragraph (2) and regulations 4 to 6.

(2) Any references in the provisions of the Curtailment Regulations to the provisions in Chapter 1B of Part 9 of the 1996 Order(1) must be construed as references to the provisions of Chapter 1B as modified by the Application Regulations.

Modifications to the Curtailment Regulations

4.  The Curtailment Regulations are modified as follows.

5.  In regulation 2 (application) for paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2) Part 3 of these Regulations has effect only in relation to children who enter Northern Ireland on or after 5th April 2015.”.

6.—(1) Regulation 3 (interpretation) is modified as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1)—

(a) for the definition of “A” substitute—

““A”, in relation to C, means the person by whom C has been or is to be adopted, or, in a case where two people have adopted C jointly, whichever of them has elected to be the adopter for the purposes of the Paternity and Adoption Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002(2);”;

(b) for the definition of “AP” substitute—

““AP” means the person who at the date on which C enters Northern Ireland is married to, or the civil partner or the partner of, A;”; and

(c) after the definition of “declaration of consent and entitlement”, insert—

““enter Northern Ireland” means enter Northern Ireland from outside the United Kingdom in connection with or for the purposes of adoption;”.

(1)

Chapter 1B was inserted by the Work and Families Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 1 (N.I.)), section 2(2).

(2)

S.R. 2002 No. 377.