# The Statutory Paternity Pay (Amendment) Regulations 2024, Regulation 13


In regulation 18—
(a) the existing text becomes paragraph (1);
(b) for sub-paragraph (c) of that paragraph, substitute—
“(c) during any part of which the person entitled to it is detained in legal custody or sentenced to a term of imprisonment, except where that sentence is suspended (but see paragraph (2).”;
(c) after that paragraph, insert—
“(2) There is liability to pay statutory paternity pay in respect of any week during any part of which the person who is entitled to that pay is detained in legal custody where that person—
(a) is released subsequently without charge,
(b) is subsequently found not guilty of any offence and is released, or
(c) is convicted of an offence but does not receive a custodial sentence.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/121/regulation/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-amendment-regulations-2024/regulation-13
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