{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-general-regulations-2002/regulation-6B",
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  "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/6B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6B",
  "heading": "Notice and evidence requirements for statutory paternity pay (birth)",
  "text": "(1) A person must provide evidence of entitlement to statutory paternity pay (birth) by providing in writing to whoever will be liable to pay it—\n(a) the information specified in paragraph (2), and\n(b) the declarations specified in paragraph (3).\n(2) The information referred to in paragraph (1)(a) is as follows—\n(a) the name of the person claiming statutory paternity pay (birth);\n(b) the expected week of the child’s birth.\n(3) The declarations referred to in paragraph (1)(b) are—\n(a) a declaration that the person satisfies the conditions prescribed in regulation 4, and\n(b) a declaration that section 171ZE(4) of the Act does not apply.\n(4) The information referred to in paragraph (2) and the declaration referred to in paragraph (3)(a) must be provided—\n(a) in or before the 15th week before the expected week of the child’s birth, or\n(b) in a case where it was not reasonably practicable for the person to provide it in that period, as soon as is reasonably practicable.\n(5) The notice provided for in section 171ZC(1) of the Act (notice to be given stating the week or weeks in respect of which payments are to be made) must be given to whoever will be liable to pay statutory paternity pay (birth) at least 28 days before—\n(a) the first day of the expected week of the child’s birth, where the option in regulation 6(1)(a) is chosen;\n(b) the date falling the specified number of days after the first day of the expected week of the child’s birth, where the option in regulation 6(1)(b) is chosen;\n(c) the predetermined date, where the option in regulation 6(1)(c) is chosen;\nor, if it is not reasonably practicable to do so, as soon as is reasonably practicable.\n(6) On each occasion that a notice is given under paragraph (5), the declaration referred to in paragraph (3)(b) must be provided at the same time.\n(7) Where a notice has previously been given under paragraph (5) or this paragraph, or under regulation 7(2), a notice of variation in writing may be given to the person who will be liable to pay statutory paternity pay which—\n(a) cancels the period of payment of statutory paternity pay specified in that notice, or\n(b) varies that period by choosing an option under regulation 6.\n(8) Where the notice under paragraph (5) specifies a period of two weeks in respect of which statutory paternity pay is to be paid, notice of variation may be given in relation to either one or both of those weeks, regardless of whether those weeks are consecutive or non-consecutive.\n(9) A notice of variation under paragraph (7) must be given by whichever is the earlier of at least 28 days before—\n(a) the original day or date referred to in paragraph (10)(a), or\n(b) the new day or date referred to in paragraph (10)(b),\nor, if it is not reasonably practicable to do so, as soon as is reasonably practicable.\n(10) For the purposes of—\n(a) paragraph (9)(a), where a notice has previously been given under either paragraph (5) or (7), the original day or date is—\n(i) the first day of the expected week of the child’s birth, where the option in regulation 6(1)(a) was chosen in that notice;\n(ii) the specified number of days after the first day of the expected week of the child’s birth, where the option in regulation 6(1)(b) was chosen in that notice;\n(iii) the predetermined date specified in that notice, where the option in regulation 6(1)(c) was chosen;\n(b) paragraph (9)(b), the new day or date is—\n(i) the first day of the expected week of the child’s birth, where the option in regulation 6(1)(a) is chosen in the notice of variation;\n(ii) the date falling the specified number of days after the first day of the expected week of the child’s birth, where the option in regulation 6(1)(b) is chosen in the notice of variation;\n(iii) the predetermined date specified in that notice, where the option in regulation 6(1)(c) is chosen in the notice of variation.\n(11) The person who is entitled to statutory paternity pay (birth) must inform the person who is liable to pay it of the date of the child’s birth if—\n(a) that person so requests, and\n(b) that date has not previously been provided to that person,\nwithin 28 days of the request, or as soon as is reasonably practicable thereafter.",
  "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/6B",
    "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."
}