{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/488",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Amendment) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-amendment-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the General Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The General Regulations shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 11 (conditions of entitlement to statutory paternity pay (adoption): relationship with child and with person with whom the child is placed for adoption)—\n(a) at the end of paragraph (2) (definition of “partner”), for “(3)” substitute “(2A)”;\n(b) after paragraph (2), insert the following paragraph—\n“(2A) The relatives of the adopter referred to in paragraph (2) are the adopter’s parent, grandparent, sister, brother, aunt or uncle.”;\n(c) in paragraph (3), for “(2)” substitute “(2A)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/488/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:31:36.269046+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."
}