{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-2002/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-2002/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2821",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-paternity-pay-and-statutory-adoption-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Time for compliance with Parts 12ZA and 12ZB of the Act or regulations made under them",
  "text": "Where—\n(a) a person is outside the United Kingdom;\n(b) Parts 12ZA or 12ZB of the Act or regulations made under them require any act to be done forthwith or on the happening of a certain event or within a specified time; and\n(c) because the person is outside the United Kingdom he or his employer cannot comply with the requirement,\nthe person or the employer, as the case may be, shall be deemed to have complied with it if the act is performed as soon as reasonably practicable.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 8.12.2002, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2821/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:40:16.877182+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."
}