http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2821/regulation/6The Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations 2002Employment terms and conditionsEmployment regulationsAdoption rightsLegislationTERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENTStatute Law Database2024-07-15Expert Participation2020-12-31 This instrument contains only regulations made by virtue of sections 2 and 4 of the Employment Act 2002, which come into force on 8th December 2002. The instrument is made before the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the coming into force of those provisions. The regulations in it are therefore exempted by section 173(5)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 from the requirement under section 172 of that Act to refer the proposals to make the regulations to the Social Security Advisory Committee and they are made without reference to the Committee. 6A person who is an employee or treated as an employee under regulation 3 and who—ain 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; andbhad in any week within the period of 26 weeks immediately preceding that week been employed by the same employer in an 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 the EEA State.Reg. 6 in force at 8.12.2002, see reg. 1(1)Words in reg. 6 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Employment Rights (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/535), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 13(b) (with Sch. 1 para. 22); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)Word in reg. 6(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Employment Rights (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/535), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 13(a) (with Sch. 1 para. 22); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)