# The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015, Regulation 37: Change of employer


(1) Where a person's employer changes, a person's employment is to be treated for the purposes of sections 167ZU and 167ZW of the 1992 Act (see also regulations 30 and 31) as continuous employment with the second employer in the following circumstances—
(a) the employer's trade or business or an undertaking (whether or not it is an undertaking established by or under Northern Ireland legislation or an Act of Parliament) is transferred from one person to another;
(b) a contract of employment between any body corporate and the person is modified by or under Northern Ireland legislation or an Act of Parliament, whether public or local and whenever passed and some other body corporate is substituted as that person's employer;
(c) on the death of the employer, the person is taken into the employment of the personal representatives or trustees of the deceased;
(d) the person is employed by partners, personal representatives or trustees and there is a change in the partners, or as the case may be, personal representatives or trustees; or
(e) the person is taken into the employment of an employer who is, at the time the person entered into to the employer's employment, an associated employer of the person's previous employer.
(2) In paragraph (1)(e) “associated employer” shall be construed in accordance with Article 4 of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/94/regulation/37 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-shared-parental-pay-general-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-37
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