24.—(1) A person shall provide evidence of his entitlement to statutory adoption pay by providing to the person who will be liable to pay it—
(a)the information specified in paragraph (2), in the form of one or more documents provided to him by an adoption agency, containing that information;
(b)a declaration that he has elected to receive statutory adoption pay, and not statutory paternity pay (adoption) under Part 12ZA of the Act.
(2) The information referred to in paragraph (1) is—
(a)the name and address of the adoption agency and of the person claiming payment of statutory adoption pay;
(b)the date on which the child is expected to be placed for adoption or, where the child has already been placed for adoption, the date of placement; and
(c)the date on which the person claiming payment of statutory adoption pay was informed by the adoption agency that the child would be placed for adoption with him.
(3) The information and declaration referred to in paragraph (1) shall be provided to the person liable to pay statutory adoption pay at least 28 days before the date chosen as the beginning of the adoption pay period in accordance with paragraph (1) of regulation 21, or, if that is not reasonably practicable, as soon as is reasonably practicable thereafter.