7. In regulation 18 (entitlement of partner to statutory shared parental pay (adoption)) of the Pay Regulations as they apply to an intended parent or a parental order parent, it shall read as if—
(a)paragraph (2)(b) was substituted by—
“(b)AP has, or expects to have, at the date of C’s birth the main responsibility for the care of C (apart from the responsibility of A);”;
(b)paragraph (3)(a) was substituted by—
“(a)A has, or expects to have, at the date of C’s birth the main responsibility for the care of C (apart from the responsibility of A);”;
(c)in paragraph (3)(c), the words “to the placement for adoption of C” were “to being the intended parent or parental order parent of C”.