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Children and Families Act 2014

Section 123: Statutory paternity pay: notice requirement and period of payment

625.This section amends the existing provisions in the SSCBA on statutory paternity pay.

626.Subsection (2) amends section 171ZC so that the requirement to give notice reflects the changes to the period of payment of statutory paternity pay made by subsection (3). The amendments of section 171ZC also provide a power for the Secretary of State to set the amount of notice which the person must give. Subsection (3) amends section 171ZE to give the Secretary of State power to set the number of weeks of statutory paternity pay in regulations subject to a minimum of 2 weeks. It also allows regulations to be made to enable paternity pay to be taken in non-consecutive periods of not less than one week.

627.Subsection (4) requires that regulations which set the number of weeks of statutory paternity pay will be subject to the affirmative parliamentary procedure.

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