{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-general-regulations-2002/regulation-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-general-regulations-2002/regulation-32.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/32",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Treatment of persons as employees",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (1A), in a case where, and in so far as, a person ... is treated as an employed earner by virtue of the Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Regulations 1978 he shall be treated as an employee for the purposes of Parts 12ZA and 12ZB of the Act, and in a case where, and in so far as, such a person is treated otherwise than as an employed earner by virtue of those regulations, he shall not be treated as an employee for the purposes of Parts 12ZA and 12ZB of the Act.\n(1A) Paragraph (1) shall have effect in relation to a person who—\n(a) is under the age of 16; and\n(b) would or, as the case may be, would not have been treated as an employed earner by virtue of the Social Security (Categorisation of Earners) Regulations 1978 had he been over that age,\nas it has effect in relation to a person who is or, as the case may be, is not so treated.\n(2) A person who is in employed earner’s employment within the meaning of the Act under a contract of apprenticeship shall be treated as an employee for the purposes of Parts 12ZA and 12ZB of the Act.\n(3) A person who is in employed earner’s employment within the meaning of the Act but whose employer—\n(a) does not fulfil the conditions prescribed in regulation 145(1) of the Contributions Regulations in so far as that provision relates to residence or presence in Great Britain; or\n(b) is a person who, by reason of any international treaty to which the United Kingdom is a party or of any international convention binding the United Kingdom—\n(i) is exempt from the provisions of the Act; or\n(ii) is a person against whom the provisions of the Act are not enforceable,\nshall not be treated as an employee for the purposes of Parts 12ZA and 12ZB of the Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32(1) inserted (1.10.2006) by The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1031), reg. 1(1), Sch. 8 para. 60(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32(1) omitted (1.10.2006) by virtue of The Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1031), reg. 1(1), Sch. 8 para. 60(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 32(1A) substituted (6.4.2007) by The Employment Equality (Age) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/825), regs. 1, 7(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1978/1689, amended by S.I. 1980/1713, 1984/350, 1990/1894, 1994/726, 1998/1728."
    },
    {
      "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/32",
    "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."
}