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Children and Families Act 2014

Section 171ZX: Liability to make payments

588.This section makes provision about liability to pay statutory shared parental pay (whether in relation to birth or adoption).

589.Subsection (1) of the inserted section provides for employers to be liable for the payment of statutory shared parental pay. (Although under section 7 of the Employment Act 2002, as amended by Schedule 7, provision is made for the funding of employers’ liabilities to pay statutory shared parental pay.)

590.Subsection (2) requires the Secretary of State to make regulations about the liability of a former employer to pay statutory shared parental pay where the employee has been dismissed by the employer to avoid liability to pay statutory shared parental pay.

591.Subsection (3) of the inserted section provides power for the Secretary of State, with the concurrence of the Commissioners for HMRC, to specify in regulations circumstances in which liability for paying statutory shared parental pay is to fall on the Commissioners.

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