23. In regulation 21 (adopter’s partner’s entitlement to shared parental leave) of the SPL Regulations as they apply to parental order parents—
(a)paragraphs (2)(b) and (3)(b) shall each read as if the words “at the date of the placement for adoption of C” were “at the date of C’s birth”;
(b)paragraph (4) shall read as if the words of that paragraph were—
“Entitlement under paragraph (1) is not affected by the number of children born or expected as a result of the same pregnancy.”.