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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shared-parental-leave-and-statutory-shared-parental-pay-consequential-amendments-to-subordinate-legislation-order-northern-ireland-2015/article-23",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/146",
  "legislation_title": "The Shared Parental Leave and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/shared-parental-leave-and-statutory-shared-parental-pay-consequential-amendments-to-subordinate-legislation-order-northern-ireland-2015",
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  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Teachers’ Pension Schemes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "text": "(1) The Teachers’ Pension Schemes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 3 (interpretation)—\n(a) omit the definition of “additional paternity leave”;\n(b) in the definition of “non-pensionable family leave”—\n(i) after “parental leave, ” insert “shared parental leave or”\n(ii) omit “or additional paternity leave”;\n(c) in the definition of “statutory pay” for paragraph (b) substitute—\n“(b) statutory shared parental pay payable in accordance with Part 12ZC of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;”;\n(d) at the appropriate place there is inserted—\n““shared parental leave” has the meaning given in regulation 3(1) of the Shared Parental Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015;”.\n(3) In regulation 23 (service not pensionable unless member is entitled to pay), in paragraph (1)(b)—\n(a) after “parental leave,” insert “shared parental leave or”;\n(b) omit “or additional paternity leave”.\n(4) In regulation 33 (interpretation), in paragraph (b) of the definition of “notional pensionable earnings”—\n(a) after “parental leave,” insert “shared parental leave or”;\n(b) omit “or additional paternity leave”.\n(5) In regulation 34 (pensionable earnings for teachers in grant aided schools and peripatetic teachers), in paragraph (2)(c)—\n(a) omit “additional paternity leave,”;\n(b) after “parental leave,” insert “shared parental leave”.\n(6) In regulation 39 (pensionable earnings for the purpose of accruing benefits), in paragraph (1)(a)—\n(a) after “parental leave,” insert” shared parental leave or”;\n(b) omit “or additional paternity leave”.\n(7) In regulation 143 (annual rate of surviving adult pension: short term), in paragraph (2)(a)—\n(a) omit “additional paternity leave”;\n(b) for “or adoption leave” substitute “shared parental leave or adoption leave”.\n(8) In regulation 150 (annual rate of child pension: short term), in paragraph (2)(a)—\n(a) omit “additional paternity leave”\n(b) for “or adoption leave” substitute “shared parental leave or adoption leave”.\n(9) In regulation 184 (pensionable earnings for a pay period), in paragraph (4) after “adoption leave” insert “, shared parental leave”.\n(10) In regulation 189 (entitlement to repayment of balance of contributions), in paragraph (3)—\n(a) omit “additional paternity leave,”;\n(b) after “parental leave” insert “, shared parental leave”.\n(11) In regulation 219 (employment records), in paragraph (2)(g)—\n(a) omit “additional paternity leave,”;\n(b) after “parental leave” insert “, shared parental leave”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2014 No. 310."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/146/article/23",
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  "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."
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