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Explanatory note

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These Regulations make provision relating to statutory shared parental pay in respect of adoptions from overseas. An adoption from overseas is defined in section 167ZX(13) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 7) (as modified) as an adoption of a child who enters Northern Ireland from outside the United Kingdom in connection with or for the purposes of adoption which does not involve the placement of the child for adoption under the law of any part of the United Kingdom.

These Regulations should be read in conjunction with the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (Application of Parts 12ZA, 12ZB and 12ZC to Adoptions from Overseas) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (S.R. 2003 No. 221), which provide for the provisions of Part 12ZC of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 to have effect, with prescribed modifications, in relation to adoptions from overseas.

Regulation 3 sets out the extent to which the Statutory Shared Parental Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 apply to adoptions from overseas.

Regulations 4 to 16 set out the modifications which apply to the Statutory Shared Parental Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 for the purposes of adoptions from overseas. The modifications relate to dates and evidential requirements which are relevant to the entitlement and notification of statutory shared parental pay (adoption).

An impact assessment has not been prepared for these Regulations. These Regulations are part of a package of legislative measures and the relevant impacts were assessed within the document ‘Sharing parental rights, extending flexibility at work – public consultation’, published in May 2013 (www.delni.gov.uk/index/consultation-zone/archived-consultations/archived-consultations-2013/working-parents-rights.htm), and supplemented by a further publication in April 2014 (www.delni.gov.uk/index/publications/equality-good-relations/shared-parental-leave-and-pay.htm).