{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-general-regulations-2002/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-general-regulations-2002/regulation-31.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/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Introductory",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the provisions of regulations 32 to 47 below apply to statutory paternity pay payable under Part 12ZA of the Act and to statutory adoption pay payable under 12ZB of the Act.\n(2) The provisions of regulation 44 only apply to statutory adoption pay.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regs. 31-39 applied (30.5.2003) by The Statutory Paternity Pay (Adoption) and Statutory Adoption Pay (Adoptions from Overseas) (No. 2) Regulation 2003 (S.I. 2003/1194), regs. 1, 3(1)–(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2822/regulation/31",
    "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."
}