{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-adoption-and-children-act-2002-consequential-amendment-to-statutory-adoption-pay-order-2006/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-adoption-and-children-act-2002-consequential-amendment-to-statutory-adoption-pay-order-2006/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2006/0110747739",
  "legislation_title": "The Adoption and Children Act 2002 (Consequential Amendment to Statutory Adoption Pay) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-adoption-and-children-act-2002-consequential-amendment-to-statutory-adoption-pay-order-2006",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992",
  "text": "Section 171ZL of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 is amended as follows—\n(a) in subsection (4) for paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(b) he falls within subsection (4A).”;\n(b) after subsection (4) insert—\n“(4A) A person falls within this subsection if—\n(a) the child is, or is expected to be, placed for adoption with him as a member of a couple;\n(b) the other member of the couple is a person to whom the conditions in subsection (2) above apply; and\n(c) the other member of the couple has elected to receive statutory adoption pay.\n(4B) For the purposes of subsection (4A), a person is a member of a couple if—\n(a) in the case of an adoption or expected adoption under the law of England and Wales, he is a member of a couple within the meaning of section 144(4) of the Adoption and Children Act 2002;\n(b) in the case of an adoption or an expected adoption under the law of Scotland or of Northern Ireland, he is a member of a married couple.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 144(4) was amended by section 79(1) and (12) of the Civil Partnership Act 2004."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110747739/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:20:52.738652+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."
}