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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
5.—(1) P is entitled to statutory shared parental pay (birth) if P satisfies the conditions specified in paragraph (2) and M satisfies the conditions specified in paragraph (3).
(2) The conditions specified in paragraph (1) are that—
(a)P satisfies the conditions as to continuity of employment and normal weekly earnings specified in regulation 30;
(b)P has at the date of C’s birth the main responsibility for the care of C (apart from the responsibility of M);
(c)P has complied with the requirements specified in regulation 7 (notification and evidential requirements of P);
(d)it is P’s intention to care for C during each week in respect of which statutory shared parental pay (birth) is paid to P;
(e)P is absent from work during each week in respect of which statutory shared parental pay (birth) is paid to P (except in the cases referred to in regulation 15 (entitlement to statutory shared parental pay: absence from work)); and
(f)where P is an employee (within the meaning of the Employment Rights Act 1996(1) P’s absence from work as an employee during each week that statutory shared parental pay (birth) is paid to P is absence on shared parental leave in respect of C.
(3) The conditions specified in paragraph (1) are—
(a)M has at the date of C’s birth the main responsibility for the care of C (apart from the responsibility of P);
(b)M meets the conditions as to employment and earnings in regulation 29 (conditions as to employment and earnings of claimant’s partner);
(c)M became entitled by reference to the birth, or expected birth, of C to statutory maternity pay or maternity allowance; and
(d)the maternity pay period or the maternity allowance period which applies to M as a result of her entitlement to statutory maternity pay or maternity allowance is, and continues to be, reduced under sections 35(3A) or 165(3A) of the 1992 Act(2).
Section 35(3A) was inserted by section 120(2) of the Children and Families Act 2014.
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