{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-shared-parental-pay-parental-order-cases-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-shared-parental-pay-parental-order-cases-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/102",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Parental Order Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-shared-parental-pay-parental-order-cases-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations provide an entitlement to statutory shared parental pay in respect of cases which involve a person who has applied with another person for a parental order under section 54 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008. Under that section a court may make an order providing for a child of a surrogate mother to be treated as the child of the applicants for the order if certain conditions are satisfied.\nThese 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 Parental Order Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015. They should also be read in conjunction with the Statutory Shared Parental Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 which they apply with modifications.\nAn 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).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/102/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:12.582131+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."
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