14—(1) Schedule 1 (which contains further amendments relating to statutory rights to leave and pay) has effect.
(2) 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.
(3) 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.
(4) Subsection (3) does not apply to the extent that a reference to statutory paternity pay is a reference to additional statutory paternity pay.
(5) In this section, “statutory provision” has the meaning given by section 1(f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954.
Commencement Information
I1S. 14(1) in operation at 15.3.2015 for specified purposes by S.R. 2015/86, art. 3(1)(k)
I2S. 14(1) in operation at 5.4.2015 in so far as not already in operation by S.R. 2015/86, art. 4(1)(d)
I3S. 14(2)-(5) in operation at 5.4.2015 by S.R. 2015/86, art. 4(1)(d) (with art. 7(2))