{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-additional-paternity-leave-regulations-2010/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-additional-paternity-leave-regulations-2010/regulation-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111493656",
  "legislation_title": "The Additional Paternity Leave Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-additional-paternity-leave-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Return to work",
  "text": "For the purposes of these Regulations, a mother (“M”) or adopter (“A”) is treated as returning to work if one of the following situations applies—\n(a) in a case where M or A is entitled to maternity leave or to adoption leave in respect of a child (“C”), the leave period has ended;\n(b) in a case where M or A is entitled, in respect of C, to payment of:\n(i) maternity allowance, that payment is not payable by virtue of regulations made under section 35(3)(a)(i) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;\n(ii) statutory maternity pay, that payment is not payable in accordance with section 165(4) or (6) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992; or\n(iii) statutory adoption pay, that payment is not payable in accordance with section 171ZN(3) or (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 Act;\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. 4. Section 35(3)(a)(i) was amended by the Work and Families Act 2006, Schedule 1, paragraph 6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 165(4) was amended by the Work and Families Act 2006, Schedule 1, paragraph 7(1) and (3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 171ZN was inserted by section 2 of the Employment Act 2002 (c. 22) and amended by the Work and Families Act 2006, Schedule 1, paragraph 21(2) and (3)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111493656/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:55:21.086697+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."
}