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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-shared-parental-pay-adoptions-from-overseas-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/99",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Adoptions from Overseas) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-shared-parental-pay-adoptions-from-overseas-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“1992 Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992;\n“the Application Regulations” means 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;\n“the General Regulations” means the Statutory Shared Parental Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015; and\n“statutory shared parental pay (adoption)” means any pay payable in accordance with the provisions of Part 12ZC of the 1992 Act where the conditions in sections 167ZW and 167ZX of that Act are satisfied.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2003 No. 221, as amended by S.R. 2015 No. 88; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 2015 No. 94."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Part 12ZC was inserted by 2015 c. 1 (N.I.), section 5."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/99/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:14.985544+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."
}