Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Entitlement to statutory adoption pay where person has worked in an EEA State

6.  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 Northern Ireland; and

(b)had in any week within the period of 26 weeks immediately preceding that week been employed by the same employer in another EEA State,

shall be treated for the purposes of section 167ZL 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 other EEA State.