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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-curtailment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/150",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Maternity Pay (Curtailment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-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 women to curtail their statutory maternity pay in accordance with section 161(3A) 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 167ZU of the 1992 Act. The Regulations also allow eligible women to curtail their statutory maternity pay in accordance with section 161(3A) of the 1992 Act in order to allow their partner (which includes their spouse or the child’s father) to take statutory shared parental pay in accordance with section 167ZU of the 1992 Act, or shared parental leave in accordance with Article 107E of the Employment Rights Order (Northern Ireland) 1996.\nRegulation 3 prescribes how notices may be given under these Regulations.\nRegulation 4 applies to a woman curtailing her statutory maternity pay in order to take statutory shared parental pay.\nRegulation 5 applies to a woman curtailing her statutory maternity pay so that her partner can take statutory shared parental pay.\nRegulation 6 allows a woman who is not eligible for statutory maternity leave to curtail her statutory maternity pay so that her 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 maternity pay the child’s mother has taken at the point of curtailing the maternity pay period.\nRegulation 7 prescribes the requirements with which a maternity pay period curtailment notice must comply.\nRegulation 8 allows a woman to revoke a notice to curtail her statutory maternity pay in specified circumstances and subject to certain conditions being satisfied.\nThese Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8), are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/150/note",
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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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