6.—(1) In regulation 7 (entitlement to shared parental pay where person has worked in an EEA State), for paragraph (2) substitute—N.I.
“(2) A person who—
(a)is an employee or treated as an employee under regulation 5;
(b)in the week in which the adopter received the official notification was in employed earner's employment with an employer in Northern Ireland; and
(c)had in any week within the period of 26 weeks immediately preceding that week been employed by the same employer in [F1an] EEA State,
shall be treated for the purposes of sections 167ZW and 167ZX of the Act (entitlement to shared parental pay: adoption) as modified by the Application Regulations as having been employed in employed earner's employment in those weeks in which the person was so employed in [F2the EEA] State.”.
Textual Amendments
F1Word in Sch. 2 para. 6(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Employment Rights (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/537), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 8(4)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2Words in Sch. 2 para. 6(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Employment Rights (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/537), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 8(4)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)