The Social Security and Tax Credits (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2015

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 119 of the Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6) inserted section 171ZU into the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c. 4). Section 5(1) of the Work and Families Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 1) inserted sections 167ZU and 167ZV into the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7). These provisions introduced the right to statutory shared parental pay.

Section 125 of the Children and Families Act 2014 and section 7 of the Work and Families Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 removed the right to additional paternity pay. As a consequence of the abolition of additional statutory paternity pay “ordinary statutory paternity pay” is re-named “statutory paternity pay”.

These Regulations make consequential amendments to secondary legislation to remove reference to ordinary statutory paternity pay and additional statutory paternity pay and insert references to statutory shared parental pay.

A tax information and impact note has not been prepared for these Regulations as they are part of a package of legislative measures for which the relevant impact assessment is the “Modern Workplaces: shared parental leave and pay administration consultation impact assessment” which was published in February 2013. A copy of that impact assessment can be obtained from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, Labour Markets Directorate, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET. Copies have also been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament.