{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-general-regulations-2002/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-general-regulations-2002/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2822",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-general-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Additional notice requirements for statutory paternity pay (adoption)",
  "text": "(1) Where a person has chosen an option in regulation 12(1)(a) or (b) in a notice of a period of payment of statutory paternity pay, the person must give further notice to the person liable to pay statutory paternity pay, as soon as is reasonably practicable, of the date on which the placement occurred.\n(2) In a case where—\n(a) a person has chosen the option in regulation 12(1)(c) in a notice of a period of payment of statutory paternity pay, and\n(b) the child is placed for adoption later than the date specified in that notice,\nthe person must vary the date on which the period of payment is to begin by giving notice to the person liable to pay statutory paternity pay (adoption), as soon as is reasonably practicable, that the period in respect of which statutory paternity pay is to be paid will begin on a date different from that originally chosen.\n(3) That date may be any date chosen in accordance with paragraph (1) of regulation 12.\n(4) Where a notice is given under regulation 12B(7) or paragraph (2) above which varies the dates of a period of payment, a declaration under regulation 12B(3)(c) in relation to that period must be given at the same time as that notice.\n(5) Paragraph (2) does not apply in circumstances where regulation 16A(5) applies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 12-13 substituted for regs. 11A-15 (8.3.2024) by The Statutory Paternity Pay (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/121), regs. 2, 10 (with regs. 5(1), 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2822/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:40:16.122758+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."
}