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Regulation 6 Options in respect of periods of payment of statutory paternity pay (birth)F1

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

Within the qualifying period set out in regulation 6A, a person entitled to statutory paternity pay (birth) may choose a period of payment of statutory paternity pay to begin on—

(a)

the date on which the child is born or, where the person is at work on that day, the following day;

(b)

the date falling such number of days after the date on which the child is born as the person may specify;

(c)

a predetermined date, specified by the person, which is later than the first day of the expected week of the child’s birth.

(2)

A person may choose for statutory paternity pay (birth) to be paid in respect of—

(a)

a single period of either one week or two weeks, or

(b)

two non-consecutive periods of a week each.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Regs. 6-7 substituted for regs. 5A-9 (8.3.2024) by The Statutory Paternity Pay (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/121), regs. 2, 9 (with regs. 5(1), 6)

Notes on the whole SI

Textual amendments

F1

Regulations amendment to earlier affecting provisions S.I. 2014/2934, regs. 11, 14 (26.8.2024) by The Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Parental Orders and Prospective Adopters) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/843), regs. 1(2), 4, 5