The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Parental Order Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

4.  Regulation 2 (definitions) of the Pay Regulations as they apply to an intended parent or a parental order parent shall read as if—

(a) in paragraph (1)—

(i) for the definition of “A” there was substituted—

““A” means the intended parent or parental order parent in relation to C who has elected to receive statutory adoption pay under section 167ZL(2)(e) of the 1992 Act(1) and to whom the conditions in section 167ZL(2) apply;”;

(ii) for the definition of “AP” there was substituted—

““AP” means the intended parent or parental order parent in relation to C who at the date of C’s birth is married to, or is the civil partner of, or is the partner of A;”;

(iii) the definitions of “adoption agency” and “child” were omitted;

(iv) there were inserted, in the appropriate places alphabetically, the following definitions—

““parental order parent” means a person on whose application the court has made an order in respect of C under section 54(1) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008;”; and

““parental statutory declaration” means a statutory declaration stating that the person making the declaration—

(a)

has applied, or intends to apply, under section 54 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 with another person for a parental order in respect of C within the time limit for making such an application; and

(b)

expects the court to make a parental order on that application in respect of C;”;

(v) the definition of “placed for adoption” was omitted;

(b) paragraphs (4) and (5) were omitted.

(1)

Section 167ZL of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 was inserted by the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I.2002/2836 (N.I.2)), Article 6.