The Statutory Paternity Pay (Amendment) Regulations 2024

31.  In regulation 11—

(a) for paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2) An employer must provide to the employee the information specified in paragraph (2A) where the employer—

(a) has made one or more payments of statutory paternity pay or statutory adoption pay to the employee, but

(b) decides that it has no liability to make further payments to the employee because the employee has been detained in legal custody or sentenced to a term of imprisonment which was not suspended.

(2A) The information specified in this paragraph is—

(a) details of the employer’s decision and the reasons for it;

(b) details of the week in respect of which a liability to pay statutory paternity pay or statutory adoption pay arose.”

(b) in sub-paragraph (3)(a), omit “or (2)” and the “and” at the end of the sub-paragraph;

(c) in sub-paragraph (3)(b)(i)—

(i) after “171ZA(1)” insert “or 171ZB(1)”;

(ii) for “gave notice of his intended absence” to “later”, substitute “first gave notice under section 171ZC(1) of the week or weeks the employee expected there to be liability to pay statutory paternity pay”;

(d) in sub-paragraph (3)(b)(ii), omit “statutory paternity pay under section 171ZB(1) or of”.