PART 2SHARED RIGHTS TO LEAVE AND PAY

Other statutory rights

14Further amendments

I1I31

Schedule 1 (which contains further amendments relating to statutory rights to leave and pay) has effect.

I22

A reference to ordinary statutory paternity pay in an instrument or document made before the coming into operation of sub-paragraphs (8) and (9) of paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 is to be read, in relation to any time after the coming into operation of those paragraphs, as a reference to statutory paternity pay.

I23

A reference to statutory paternity pay in a statutory provision (including a statutory provision amended by this Act) or in an instrument or document is to be read, in relation to any time that falls—

a

after the coming into operation of paragraphs 11 and 12 of Schedule 1 to the Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006, but

b

before the coming into operation of sub-paragraphs (8) and (9) of paragraph 2 of Schedule 1,

as a reference to ordinary statutory paternity pay.

I24

Subsection (3) does not apply to the extent that a reference to statutory paternity pay is a reference to additional statutory paternity pay.

I25

In this section, “statutory provision” has the meaning given by section 1(f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954.