SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7E+WStatutory rights to leave and pay: further amendments

Employment Act 2002 (c. 22)E+W

52(1)Section 8 (regulations about payment) is amended as follows.E+W

(2)In subsection (1) (power to make regulations with respect to payment by employers of statutory pay)—

(a)for “ordinary statutory paternity pay, additional statutory paternity pay and” there is substituted “ statutory paternity pay, ”;

(b)after “statutory adoption pay” there is inserted “ and statutory shared parental pay ”.

(3)In subsection (2) (further provision as to regulations)—

(a)in paragraph (a)—

(i)for “ordinary statutory paternity pay, additional statutory paternity pay and” there is substituted “ statutory paternity pay, ”;

(ii)after “statutory adoption pay” there is inserted “ and statutory shared parental pay ”;

(b)in paragraph (b)—

(i)for “ordinary statutory paternity pay, additional statutory paternity pay and” there is substituted “ statutory paternity pay, ”;

(ii)after “statutory adoption pay” there is inserted “ and statutory shared parental pay ”;

(c)in paragraph (d)—

(i)for “ordinary statutory paternity pay, additional statutory paternity pay and” there is substituted “ statutory paternity pay, ”;

(ii)after “statutory adoption pay” there is inserted “ and statutory shared parental pay ”.