to exclude, limit or otherwise modify any provision of this Part of this Act, or

to require an employee or former employee to contribute (whether directly or indirectly) towards any costs incurred by his employer or former employer under this Part of this Act.

is authorised by that or another agreement to make the same deductions from any contractual remuneration which he is liable to pay in respect of the same period, or

would be so authorised if he were liable to pay contractual remuneration in respect of that period.

any contractual remuneration paid to a person by an employer of his in respect of any period shall go towards discharging any liability of that employer to pay statutory paternity pay to him in respect of that period; and

any statutory paternity pay paid by an employer to a person who is an employee of his in respect of any period shall go towards discharging any liability of that employer to pay contractual remuneration to him in respect of that period.

employed on board any ship, vessel, hovercraft or aircraft;

outside Great Britain at any prescribed time or in any prescribed circumstances; or

in prescribed employment in connection with continental shelf operations, as defined in section 120(2) above.

for any provision of this Part of this Act to apply to any such person, notwithstanding that it would not otherwise apply;

for any such provision not to apply to any such person, notwithstanding that it would otherwise apply;

for excepting any such person from the application of any such provision where he neither is domiciled nor has a place of residence in any part of Great Britain;

for the taking of evidence, for the purposes of the determination of any question arising under any such provision, in a country or territory outside Great Britain, by a British consular official or such other person as may be determined in accordance with the regulations.

gainfully employed in Great Britain either under a contract of service or in an office (including elective office) with F8earnings (within the meaning of Parts 1 to 5 above); F3...

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for cases where a person who falls within the definition in subsection (2) above is not to be treated as an employee for the purposes of this Part of this Act, and

for cases where a person who would not otherwise be an employee for the purposes of this Part of this Act is to be treated as an employee for those purposes.

two or more employers are to be treated as one;

two or more contracts of service in respect of which the same person is an employee are to be treated as one.

in consequence of the establishment of one or more National Health Service trusts under F4the National Health Service Act 2006, the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 or the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (c. 29), a person’s contract of employment is treated by a scheme under F5any of those Acts as divided so as to constitute two or more contracts, or

an order under F6paragraph 26(1) of Schedule 3 to the National Health Service Act 2006 provides that a person’s contract of employment is so divided,

the conditions that must be satisfied if a person is to be entitled to make such an election;

the manner in which, and the time within which, such an election is to be made;

the persons to whom, and the manner in which, notice of such an election is to be given;

the information which a person who makes such an election is to provide, and the persons to whom, and the time within which, he is to provide it;

the time for which such an election is to have effect;

which one of the person’s employers under two or more contracts is to be regarded for the purposes of F18statutory paternity pay as his employer under the contract.