{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-amendment-regulations-2024/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-amendment-regulations-2024/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/121",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Paternity Pay (Amendment) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-amendment-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\nthe “2002 Regulations” means the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) Regulations 2002;\nthe “2003 Regulations” means the Statutory Paternity Pay (Adoption) and Statutory Adoption Pay (Adoptions from Overseas) (No. 2) Regulations 2003;\nthe “2014 Regulations” means the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Parental Orders and Prospective Adopters) Regulations 2014;\n(2) For the purposes of this Part—\n(a) in relation to children who are placed for adoption, “adopter” and “statutory paternity pay (adoption)” have the same meanings as in regulation 2(1) of the 2002 Regulations;\n(b) in relation to adoption from overseas, “adopter” and “statutory paternity pay (adoption)” have the same meanings as in regulation 2(1) of the 2003 Regulations;\n(c) the following expressions have the same meanings as in regulation 2 of the 2002 Regulations—\n(i) “expected week”;\n(ii) “placed for adoption”;\n(iii) “statutory paternity pay (birth)”;\n(d) the following expressions have the same meanings as in regulation 2(1) of the 2003 Regulations—\n(i) “adoption from overseas”;\n(ii) “enter Great Britain”;\n(iii) “official notification”;\n(e) the following expressions have the same meanings as in regulation 7(b) of the 2014 Regulations—\n(i) “Parent A”;\n(ii) “section 54 parental order parent”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/2822, amended by S.I. 2003/2096, 2004/488, 2005/358, 2005/2114, 2006/1031, 2007/825, 2007/1154, 2010/1172, 2011/245, 2011/1740, 2014/386, 2014/2862, 2015/2065, 2020/450 and 2021/716; there are other amendments but none is relevant. Provisions in S.I. 2002/2822 are applied, with modifications, to adoptions from overseas by S.I. 2003/1194 and to parental order cases by S.I. 2014/2934."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/1194, amended by S.I. 2004/488, 2005/2114, 2011/159 and 2011/1740."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2014/2934, amended by 2018/1413."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/121/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:35:14.864441+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."
}