EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Employee Share Ownership Plans (Partnership Shares – Notice of Effects on Benefits Statutory Sick Pay and Statutory Maternity Pay) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2090: “the 2000 Regulations”).

Article 1 provides for citation and commencement.

Article 2 amends regulation 2 of the 2000 Regulation. The words “wife or husband” are omitted from the prescribed form of notice and replaced by “spouse or civil partner”. This reflects the changes made by the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33).

This Order does not impose any new costs on business.