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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-adoption-and-statutory-adoption-pay-adoptions-from-overseas-administration-regulations-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1192",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Paternity Pay (Adoption) and Statutory Adoption Pay (Adoptions from Overseas) (Administration) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-adoption-and-statutory-adoption-pay-adoptions-from-overseas-administration-regulations-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations apply the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Administration) Regulations 2002 to adoptions from overseas with the necessary modifications.\nThe modifications relate to definitions and to regulation 11 of the 2002 Regulations. Regulation 11 requires that an employer who has been given evidence of an employee’s entitlement to statutory paternity pay or statutory adoption pay, but decides that he has no liability to make payments, must furnish the employee with details of the decision and the reasons for it. Paragraph (3)(b)(ii) provides that this requirement must be complied with within seven days of the date on which an adopter is notified of having been matched with a child, and paragraph (4) defines what is meant by notification of matching. There is no matching of a child with an adopter in the case of adoptions from overseas. Paragraph (3)(b)(ii) is accordingly amended to refer to the date on which the employee’s evidence of entitlement was provided, or, where not all of the evidence referred to in paragraph (1) was provided on one date, the date on which the last of the evidence was provided.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1192/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:24:55.175980+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."
}