{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-statutory-shared-parental-pay-parental-order-cases-regulations-2014/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111121627",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Parental Order Cases) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-statutory-shared-parental-pay-parental-order-cases-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In regulation 19 (notification and evidential requirements relating to the adopter) of the Pay Regulations as they apply to an intended parent or a parental order parent—\n(a) paragraph (1)(b) shall read as if the words “if C is not placed for adoption by that time as soon as reasonably practicable after the placement of C ” were “if C is not born by that time as soon as reasonably practicable after the birth of C”;\n(b) in paragraph (3)—\n(i) sub-paragraph (b) shall read as if the words in that sub-paragraph were “the expected week of birth of C”;\n(ii) sub-paragraph (c) shall read as if the words in that sub-paragraph were “C’s date of birth”;\n(iii) that paragraph shall apply as if there were also specified a parental statutory declaration by A unless the condition in paragraph (2)(a) or (b) of this regulation is satisfied;\n(c) paragraph (4) shall apply as if—\n(i) sub-paragraph (a) were omitted;\n(ii) there were also specified a copy of C’s birth certificate or, if one has not been issued, a written declaration signed by A which states that it has not been issued;\n(iii) where A has not provided a parental statutory declaration as a result of the condition in paragraph (2)(a) of this regulation being satisfied, there were specified a parental statutory declaration.\n(2) The conditions referred to in paragraph (1)(b)(iii) and (c)(iii) are—\n(a) that A has given the employer who will be liable to pay statutory shared parental pay (adoption) to A a statutory declaration as evidence of A’s entitlement to statutory adoption pay in respect of C in accordance with regulation 24 of the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) Regulations 2002;\n(b) that A is a parental order parent and has given the employer a copy of the order in respect of C made under section 54(1) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“employer” is construed in accordance with section 171ZZ4(1) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/2822; regulation 24 is modified as it applies to intended and parental order parents by S.I. 2014/ ; there are other amendments but none are relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111121627/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:12:09.212967+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."
}