{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-general-regulations-2002/regulation-6A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-general-regulations-2002/regulation-6A.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/6A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6A",
  "heading": "Qualifying period for statutory paternity pay (birth)",
  "text": "Subject to regulation 16A, the qualifying period for the purposes of section 171ZE(3) of the Act (period within which a period of payment of statutory paternity pay must occur) is a period which begins on the date of the child’s birth and ends—\n(a) except in the case referred to in sub-paragraph (b), 52 weeks after that date, or\n(b) in a case where the child is born before the first day of the expected week of its birth, 52 weeks after that day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2822/regulation/6A",
    "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."
}