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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-adoption-pay-curtailment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/96",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Adoption Pay (Curtailment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-adoption-pay-curtailment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations allow eligible adopters to curtail their adoption pay period in accordance with section 167ZN(2A) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (“the 1992 Act”) in order to enable them to take statutory shared parental pay in accordance with section 167ZW and 167ZX of that Act. The Regulations also allow eligible adopters to curtail their adoption pay period in accordance with 167ZN(2A) of the 1992 Act in order to allow their partner to take statutory shared parental pay in accordance with sections 167ZW and 167ZX of that Act, or shared parental leave in accordance with article 6 of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.\nRegulation 3 prescribes how notices may be given under these Regulations.\nRegulation 4 applies to an adopter who is entitled to statutory adoption pay curtailing that statutory adoption pay in order to take statutory shared parental pay.\nRegulation 5 applies to an adopter curtailing their statutory adoption pay so that their partner can take statutory shared parental pay.\nRegulation 6 allows an adopter who is not eligible for statutory adoption leave to curtail their statutory adoption pay so that their partner can take shared parental leave. In these circumstances, an eligible partner will be entitled to 52 weeks of shared parental leave less the amount of statutory adoption pay the child’s adopter has taken at the point of curtailing the adoption pay period.\nRegulation 7 prescribes the requirements with which an adoption pay period curtailment notice must comply.\nRegulation 8 allows an adopter to revoke a notice to curtail their statutory adoption pay in specified circumstances and subject to certain conditions being satisfied.\nAn impact assessment has not been prepared for these Regulations. These Regulations are part of a package of legislative measures and the relevant impacts were assessed within the document ‘Sharing parental rights, extending flexibility at work – public consultation’, published in May 2013 (www.delni.gov.uk/index/consultation-zone/archived-consultations/archived-consultations-2013/working-parents-rights.htm), and supplemented by a further publication in April 2014 (www.delni.gov.uk/index/publications/equality-good-relations/shared-parental-leave-and-pay.htm).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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