SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7Statutory rights to leave and pay: further amendments

Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c. 5)

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1

Section 20 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (relationship with statutory payments) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (6) (no entitlement to an employment and support allowance during an additional paternity pay period)—

a

for “additional statutory paternity pay” there is substituted “ statutory shared parental pay ”;

b

for “a day that falls within the additional paternity pay period” there is substituted “ a day that falls within a period in respect of which statutory shared parental pay is payable ”.

3

In subsection (7) (regulations providing for exceptions to subsection (6)), in paragraph (a), for “additional statutory paternity pay for a period” there is substituted “ statutory shared parental pay for a period ”.

4

In subsection (8) (definitions), the definition of “the additional paternity pay period” is repealed.