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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-parental-orders-and-prospective-adopters-regulations-2014/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2934",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Parental Orders and Prospective Adopters) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-parental-orders-and-prospective-adopters-regulations-2014",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Terms And Conditions Of Employment\nMade 5th November 2014\nLaid before Parliament 7th November 2014\nComing into force 1st December 2014\nThis instrument contains only regulations made by virtue of, or consequential upon, section 119 of the Children and Families Act 2014 and is made before the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the coming into force of that enactment.\nThe Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 171ZB(2)(a), 171ZC(1A) and (3)(a), (c), (d), (f) and (g), 171ZD(2) and (3), 171ZE(2), (3), (7) and (8), 171ZG(3), 171ZJ(1), (3), (4), (7) and (8), 171ZL(8)(b) to (d), (f) and (g), 171ZM(2) and (3), 171ZN(2), (5) and (6), 171ZP(6), 171ZS(1), (3), (4), (7) and (8) and 175(4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, section 5(1)(g), (i) and (p) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 and sections 8(1) and (2)(c) and 51(1) of the Employment Act 2002 and with the concurrence of the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, in so far as such concurrence is required, makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2014 c.6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 173(5) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5). Pursuant to section 172 of that Act, where the Secretary of State proposes to make regulations under the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, the Secretary of State is required to refer such proposals, normally in the form of draft regulations, to the Social Security Advisory Committee. This requirement does not apply where the regulations are contained in a statutory instrument made before the end of a period of six months beginning with the coming into force of the enactments by virtue or as a consequence of which the regulations are being made."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1992 c.4; Sections 171ZA to 171ZJ were inserted by section 2 of the Employment Act 2002 (c.22) and sections 171ZL to 171ZT by section 4 of that Act; sections 171ZB, 171ZC, 171ZE,171ZJ, 171ZL, 171ZN were amended by sections 121 and 123 of the Children and Families Act 2014 (c.6); section 171ZB and 171ZL are modified in so far as they apply to parental order cases by S.I. 2014/ 2866; see sections 171ZJ(1) and 171ZS(1) for the definition of ‘prescribed’."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2002 c.22. Sections 7, 8 and 10 were amended by the Children and Families Act 2014 (c.6), Schedule 7, paragraphs 51 to 53."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "2002 c.22. Sections 7, 8 and 10 were amended by the Children and Families Act 2014 (c.6), Schedule 7, paragraphs 51 to 53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2934/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}