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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (General) Regulations 2014 No. 3051
42.—(1) A former employer is liable to make payments of statutory shared parental pay to a former employee in any case where the employee has been employed for a continuous period of at least eight weeks and the employee’s contract of service was brought to an end by the former employer solely, or mainly, for the purpose of avoiding liability for statutory shared parental pay.
(2) In a case falling within paragraph (1)—
(a)the employee shall be treated as if the employee had been employed for a continuous period ending with the period of seven days beginning with Sunday before the first week falling within the relevant period relating to that employee under section 171ZY(2) of the 1992 Act; and
(b)regulation 32(2) (relevant period for the purpose of the calculation of normal weekly earnings) shall apply as if it read—
“(2) The relevant period is the period—
(a)ending on the last day of payment under the former contract of employment; and
(b)beginning with the day following the day of payment under that contract to fall at least 8 weeks earlier than the day of payment mentioned in sub-paragraph (a).”.
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