{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-curtailment-regulations-2014/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-curtailment-regulations-2014/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/3054",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Maternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Curtailment) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-curtailment-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Adoption pay period curtailment notice",
  "text": "(1) An adoption pay period curtailment notice must—\n(a) be in writing;\n(b) specify the date on which A’s statutory adoption pay period is to end; and\n(c) be given to the person who is liable to pay A’s statutory adoption pay.\n(2) The date specified in accordance with paragraph (1)(b) must be—\n(a) the last day of a week;\n(b) at least eight weeks after the date on which A gave the adoption pay period curtailment notice;\n(c) at least two weeks after the first day of the adoption pay period; and\n(d) at least one week before the last day of the adoption pay period.\n(3) If A has more than one entitlement to statutory adoption pay in relation to C, A must curtail the adoption pay period in relation to each (or none) of those entitlements, and in relation to each of those entitlements A must specify an adoption pay curtailment date which falls in the same calendar week.\n(4) Where A—\n(a) returns to work before giving a notice in accordance with paragraph (1); and\n(b) subsequently gives such a notice;\nthe adoption pay curtailment date shall be the last day of the week in which that notice is submitted (irrespective of the date given in that notice under paragraph (1)).\n(5) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(a) and (4), “week” has the meaning given in section 171ZN(8) of the 1992 Act.\n(6) In this regulation, A is treated as returning to work where statutory adoption pay is not payable to A in accordance with section 171ZN(3) or (5) of the 1992 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 171ZN(3) was amended by the Work and Families Act 2006, Schedule 1, paragraph 21(1) and (2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3054/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:56:13.269862+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."
}