Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Amendment of the Overseas Adoptions Regulations

4.—(1) The Overseas Adoptions Regulations shall be amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 3(4) (application of regulation 40 of the General Regulations subject to modified definitions), for paragraph (a) (definition of the “appropriate date”) substitute –

(a)in paragraph (2)(b), for “the week in which the adopter is notified of being matched with the child for the purposes of adoption” there were substituted –

the week in which –

(i)official notification is sent to the adopter; or

(ii)the person satisfies the condition in section 167ZB(2)(b) or 167ZL(2)(b) of the Act (26 weeks' continuous employment),

whichever is the later.