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The Statutory Paternity Pay (Amendment) Regulations 2024
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20. After regulation 11 insert—
“Change in circumstances
11A.—(1) This regulation applies where a person is otherwise entitled to statutory paternity pay (adoption) in respect of a child but a relevant event, as specified in paragraph (2), occurs.
(2) A relevant event as referred to in paragraph (1) occurs when—
(a)the child ceases to live with the adopter, or
(b)the child dies.
(3) In a case where this regulation applies, the qualifying period for the purposes of section 171ZE(3) of the Act (period within which a period of payment of statutory paternity pay must occur) ends after the end of a period of eight weeks following the end of the relevant week specified in paragraph (4), except in the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (5).
(4) The relevant week referred to in paragraph (3) is—
(a)in a case falling within paragraph (2)(a), the week during which the child ceases to live with the adopter;
(b)in a case falling within paragraph (2)(b), the week during which the child dies.
(5) Where the person has complied with the requirements in regulation 6B (notice and evidential requirements for statutory paternity pay (adoption)), the person will remain entitled to payment in respect of any period of payment which has been specified in a notice given, before the day on which the relevant event occurs, under that regulation.
(6) Where paragraph (5) applies, no further notices may be served under regulation 6B other than a notice to cancel a period of payment specified in a notice already given under regulations 6B or 7.
(7) In paragraph (4), “week” means the period of seven days beginning with Sunday.
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11B.—(1) Where a person (P) works for an employer falling within paragraph (a), but not paragraph (b), of regulation 10, for any part of a period which has been specified by P in a notice under regulation 6B or 7, P must notify the person liable to pay statutory paternity pay of the fact of that work within seven days of the first day during which the person does such work.
(2) The notification mentioned in paragraph (1) must be in writing, if the person who has been liable to pay statutory paternity pay so requests.”.
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