{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-curtailment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-maternity-pay-curtailment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-2.json",
  "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",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) 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“C” means the child in respect of whom an entitlement to—\n(a) shared parental leave arises under Article 107E (entitlement to shared parental leave: birth) of the 1996 Order; or\n(b) statutory shared parental pay arises under section 167ZU (entitlement: birth) of the 1992 Act;\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 notification;\n“maternity pay period curtailment notification” means a notification 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, means a person (whether of a different sex or the same sex) who lives with M and C in an enduring family relationship but is not M’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; and\n“statutory maternity pay” has the meaning given in section 160(1) (statutory maternity pay—entitlement and liability to pay) of the 1992 Act.\n(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 No. 1919 (N.I. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Article 107E was inserted by Article 2(2) of the 2015 Act"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 167U was inserted by Article 5(2) of the 2015 Act"
    },
    {
      "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": "1954 c.33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/150/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:02:35.664758+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."
}