609.This section amends the SSCBA. It inserts provisions into sections 35, 165 171ZE and 171ZN that allow regulations to be made that will enable the duration of the maternity allowance period, the maternity pay period or the adoption pay period as it applies to a person to be reduced subject to prescribed conditions and restrictions. This will allow access to the new system of shared parental leave and pay. The section also allows regulations to be made that will enable a reduction in maternity allowance, maternity pay or adoption pay periods to be revoked or to be treated as revoked subject to prescribed conditions and restrictions (for example, the regulation making power might be used in some circumstances where a woman’s partner has died).
610.Subsection (3) inserts a provision into section 35 to ensure that a woman is not entitled to maternity allowance for any week that she would have been entitled to statutory maternity pay, had she not reduced the duration of the statutory maternity pay period.
611.Subsection (5) inserts provisions into section 171ZE to specify that statutory paternity pay will not be payable in respect of a child for a week where the person has already been paid statutory shared parental pay, or taken shared parental leave, in respect of the child or is due to be paid statutory shared parental pay, or take shared parental leave, in respect of the child for any part of that week.
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