{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-general-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-general-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-22.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2002/378",
  "legislation_title": "Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-general-regulations-northern-ireland-2002",
  "path": "regulation/22",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Adoption pay period in cases where adoption is disrupted",
  "text": "(1) Where–\n(a) after a child has been placed for adoption–\n(i) the child dies;\n(ii) the child is returned to the adoption agency under Article 31(3) of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 or section 30(3) of the Adoption Act 1976 or section 30(3) of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978, or\n(b) the adoption pay period has begun prior to the date the child has been placed for adoption, but the placement does not take place,\nthe adoption pay period shall terminate in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (2).\n(2) The adoption pay period shall, in a case falling within paragraph (1), terminate 8 weeks after the end of the week specified in paragraph (3).\n(3) The week referred to in paragraph (2) is–\n(a) in a case falling within paragraph (1)(a)(i), the week during which the child dies;\n(b) in a case falling within paragraph (1)(a)(ii), the week during which the child is returned;\n(c) in a case falling within paragraph (1)(b), the week during which the person with whom the child was to be placed for adoption is notified that the placement will not be made.\n(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3), “week” means a period of seven days beginning with Sunday.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 22 in operation at 8.12.2002, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/1740",
      "affecting_title": "The Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2011"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2015/92",
      "affecting_title": "The Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Parental Orders and Prospective Adopters) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2015/92",
      "affecting_title": "The Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Parental Orders and Prospective Adopters) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/378/regulation/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:05:45.673204+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."
}