{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-adoption-pay-curtailment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-adoption-pay-curtailment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-2.json",
  "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",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1992 Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;\n“the 1996 Order ” means the Employment Rights(Northern Ireland) Order 1996;\n“A” means a person who is entitled to statutory adoption pay;\n“adoption pay curtailment date” means, subject to regulation 7(4), the date specified in an adoption pay period curtailment notice;\n“adoption pay period curtailment notice” means a notice given in accordance with regulation 7;\n“AP” means the person who is married to, or the civil partner or the partner of, A;\n“C” means the child in respect of whom an entitlement to—\n(a) shared parental leave arises under Article 107G (entitlement to shared parental leave: adoption) of the 1996 Order;\n(b) statutory shared parental pay arises under sections 167ZW and 167ZX (entitlement: adoption) of the 1992 Act;\n“calendar week” means a period of seven days beginning with a Sunday;\n“partner” in relation to A, means a person (whether of a different sex or the same sex) who lives with A and with C in an enduring family relationship but is not A’s child, parent, grandchild, grandparent, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece or nephew;\n“SPL Regulations” means the Shared Parental Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015;\n“ShPP Regulations” means the Statutory Shared Parental Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland 2015;\n“statutory adoption pay” has the meaning given in section 167ZL (entitlement) of the 1992 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1919 (N.I. 16)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sections 107G was inserted by 2015 c. 1, section 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Sections 167ZW and 167ZX were inserted by the 2015 c. 1, section 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.R. 2015. No. 93."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.R. 2015 .No. 94."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Section 167ZL was inserted by the Employment (NI) Order 2002 S.I. 2002/2836 (N.I.), Art. 6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/96/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:16.993030+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."
}