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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/additional-paternity-leave-adoptions-from-overseas-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/regulation-15",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2010/296",
  "legislation_title": "The Additional Paternity Leave (Adoptions from Overseas) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/additional-paternity-leave-adoptions-from-overseas-regulations-northern-ireland-2010",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Return to work",
  "text": "For the purposes of these Regulations, A is treated as returning to work if one of the following conditions is satisfied—\n(a) in a case where A is entitled to adoption leave in respect of C, A’s adoption leave period has ended;\n(b) in a case where A is entitled to statutory adoption pay, that payment is not payable to A in accordance with section 167ZN(3) or (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992; or\n(c) in a case where both (a) and (b) apply, the conditions in both (a) and (b) are satisfied.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c, 7. Section 167ZN was inserted by Article 6 of the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2836 (N.I. 2)) and subsection 3 amended by the Work and Families (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1947 (N.I. 16)), Schedule 1, paragraph 20(1) and (2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/296/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:25:34.508523+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}