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Children and Families Act 2014

Children and Families Act 2014

2014 CHAPTER 6

Commentary on Sections

Part 7 - Statutory Rights to Leave and Pay

Other statutory rights

Section 124: Rate of statutory adoption pay

628.Subsection (1) repeals subsection (1) of section 171ZN of the SSCBA, and provides for the rate of statutory adoption pay to be paid at an earnings related rate for the first 6 weeks and the lower of an earnings related rate or a prescribed weekly rate, whichever is the lower, for the remaining weeks of statutory adoption pay.

629.It also sets the earnings related rate to be the equivalent of 90 per cent of a person’s normal weekly earnings for the 8 weeks ending the week in which the person was notified of the adoption match. The prescribed weekly rate must not be lower than the highest weekly rate that has been set for statutory sick pay.

630.Subsection (2) repeals the entry in section 176(1)(a) of the SSCBA which relates to section 171ZN(1) of that Act (as section 171ZN(1) is repealed by subsection (1)).

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