Entitlement to statutory adoption pay where person has worked in an EEA State6.
A person who is an employee or treated as an employee under regulation 3 and who—
(a)
in the week in which he is notified that he has been matched with the child for the purposes of adoption was in employed earner’s employment with an employer in Great Britain; and
(b)
had in any week within the period of 26 weeks immediately preceding that week been employed by the same employer in F1an EEA State,
shall be treated for the purposes of section 171ZL of the Act (entitlement to statutory adoption pay) as having been employed in employed earner’s employment in those weeks in which he was so employed in F2the EEA State.