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The Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015

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Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

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15.—(1) The Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), in the definition of “paternity leave”—

(a)omit “ordinary”;

(b)omit “or on additional paternity leave by virtue of Article 112AA or 112BB of that Order”;

(c)at the appropriate place there is inserted—

“shared parental leave” means leave under Article 107E or 107G of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996;.

(3) In regulation 6 (remunerative work), in paragraph (7), after “paternity leave” insert “, shared parental leave”.

(4) In regulation 25 (treatment of child care charges)—

(a)in paragraph (14)(a) after “paternity leave” insert “, shared parental leave”;

(b)in paragraph (14)(a)(i) after “paternity leave” insert “, shared parental leave”;

(c)in paragraph (14)(a)(iii)—

(i)omit ”ordinary”;

(ii)omit “additional statutory paternity pay by virtue of section 167ZEA or 167ZEB of the Act,”;

(iii)after “maternity allowance under section 35 of the Act” insert “, statutory shared parental pay by virtue of section 167ZU or 167ZW of the Act”;

(d)in paragraph (14)(b)(ii)—

(i)for “ordinary or additional statutory paternity pay or” substitute “statutory paternity pay,”

(ii)after “statutory adoption pay” insert “or statutory shared parental pay”;

(e)in paragraph (14)(b)(iii)—

(i)for “ordinary or additional statutory paternity pay or” substitute “statutory paternity pay,”;

(ii)after “statutory adoption pay” insert “ or statutory shared parental pay”.

(5) In regulation 32 (earnings of employed earners), in paragraph (1)—

(a)in sub-paragraph (i)—

(i)for “ordinary or additional statutory paternity pay or” substitute “statutory paternity pay,”;

(ii)after “statutory adoption pay,” insert “statutory shared parental pay”;

(b)in sub-paragraph (k) after “adoption leave” insert “or shared parental leave”.

(6) In regulation 33 (calculation of net earnings of employed earners), in paragraph (3)(d)—

(a)for “ordinary or additional statutory paternity pay or” substitute “statutory paternity pay,”;

(b)after “statutory adoption pay” insert “or statutory shared parental pay”.

(1)

S.R. 2006 No. 405; amended by S.R. 2012 No. 121, there are other amending regulations but none is relevant.

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