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Valid from 08/12/2002
[167ZA Entitlement: birthN.I.
(1)Where a person satisfies the conditions in subsection (2) below, he shall be entitled in accordance with the following provisions of this Part of this Act to payments to be known as “statutory paternity pay”.
(2)The conditions are—
(a)that he satisfies prescribed conditions—
(i)as to relationship with a newborn child, and
(ii)as to relationship with the child’s mother;
(b)that he has been in employed earner’s employment with an employer for a continuous period of at least 26 weeks ending with the relevant week;
(c)that his normal weekly earnings for the period of 8 weeks ending with the relevant week are not less than the lower earnings limit in force under section 5(1)(a) above at the end of the relevant week; and
(d)that he has been in employed earner’s employment with the employer by reference to whom the condition in paragraph (b) above is satisfied for a continuous period beginning with the end of the relevant week and ending with the day on which the child is born.
(3)The references in subsection (2) above to the relevant week are to the week immediately preceding the 14th week before the expected week of the child’s birth.
(4)A person’s entitlement to statutory paternity pay under this section shall not be affected by the birth, or expected birth, of more than one child as a result of the same pregnancy.
(5)In this section, “newborn child” includes a child stillborn after twenty-four weeks of pregnancy.]
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