{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-shared-parental-pay-parental-order-cases-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-shared-parental-pay-parental-order-cases-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-4.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": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Regulation 2 (definitions) of the Pay Regulations as they apply to an intended parent or a parental order parent shall read as if—\n(a) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) for the definition of “A” there was substituted—\n““A” means the intended parent or parental order parent in relation to C who has elected to receive statutory adoption pay under section 167ZL(2)(e) of the 1992 Act and to whom the conditions in section 167ZL(2) apply;”;\n(ii) for the definition of “AP” there was substituted—\n““AP” means the intended parent or parental order parent in relation to C who at the date of C’s birth is married to, or is the civil partner of, or is the partner of A;”;\n(iii) the definitions of “adoption agency” and “child” were omitted;\n(iv) there were inserted, in the appropriate places alphabetically, the following definitions—\n““parental order parent” means a person on whose application the court has made an order in respect of C under section 54(1) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008;”; and\n““parental statutory declaration” means a statutory declaration stating that the person making the declaration—\n(a) has applied, or intends to apply, under section 54 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 with another person for a parental order in respect of C within the time limit for making such an application; and\n(b) expects the court to make a parental order on that application in respect of C;”;\n(v) the definition of “placed for adoption” was omitted;\n(b) paragraphs (4) and (5) were omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 167ZL of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 was inserted by the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I.2002/2836 (N.I.2)), Article 6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/102/regulation/4",
    "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."
}