{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2006/374",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the General Regulations” means the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002;\n“the Weekly Rates Regulations” means the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Weekly Rates) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2002 No. 378; relevant amending regulations are the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (S.R. 2004 No. 132) and the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005 No. 167)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 2002 No. 380 was amended by the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Weekly Rates) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (S.R. 2004 No. 111), the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005 No. 82) and the Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006 No. 109)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/374/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:45:12.124915+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."
}