{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-curtailment-regulations-2014/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-curtailment-regulations-2014/regulation-2.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/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1992 Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;\n“the 1996 Act” means the Employment Rights Act 1996;\n“A” means a person who is entitled to statutory adoption pay;\n“adoption pay curtailment date” means, subject to regulation 12(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 12;\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 section 75E (entitlement to shared parental leave: birth) or 75G (entitlement to shared parental leave: adoption) of the 1996 Act;\n(b) statutory shared parental pay arises under section 171ZU (entitlement: birth) or 171ZV (entitlement: adoption) of the 1992 Act;\n“calendar week” means a period of seven days beginning with a Sunday;\n“M” means the mother (or expectant mother) of C;\n“maternity pay period curtailment date” means, subject to regulation 7(5), the date specified in a maternity pay period curtailment notice;\n“maternity pay period curtailment notice” means a notice given in accordance with regulation 7 and regulation 8(5);\n“P” means the father of C, or the person who is married to, or the civil partner or the partner of, M;\n“partner” in relation to M or A, means a person (whether of a different sex or the same sex) who lives with M or A and with C in an enduring family relationship but is not M’s or A’s child, parent, grandchild, grandparent, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece or nephew;\n“SPL Regulations” means the Shared Parental Leave Regulations 2014;\n“ShPP Regulations” means the Statutory Shared Parental Pay (General) Regulations 2014;\n“statutory adoption pay” has the meaning given in section 171ZL (entitlement) of the 1992 Act;\n“statutory maternity pay” has the meaning given in section 164(1) (statutory maternity pay—entitlement and liability to pay) of the 1992 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sections 75E and 75G were inserted by the 2014 Act, section 117."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Sections 171ZU and 171ZV were inserted by the 2014 Act, section 119."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2014/3050."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 2014/3051."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Section 171ZL was inserted by the 2002 Act, section 4, and amended by S.I. 2006/2012, 2011/1740."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3054/regulation/2",
    "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."
}