# The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations 2014, Regulation 7: Entitlement to statutory shared parental pay where person has worked in an EEA state


(1) A person who—
(a) is an employee or treated as an employee under regulation 5;
(b) in the week immediately preceding the 14th week before the expected week of the child's birth was in employed earner's employment with an employer in Great Britain; and
(c) had in any week within the period of 26 weeks immediately preceding that week been employed by the same employer in an EEA state,
shall be treated for the purposes of section 171ZU of the Act (entitlement to shared parental pay: birth) as having been employed in employed earner's employment with an employer in those weeks in which the person was so employed in the EEA state.
(2) A person who—
(a) is an employee or treated as an employee under regulation 5;
(b) in the week in which the adopter is notified of having been matched with the child for the purposes of adoption was in employed earner's employment with an employer in Great Britain; and
(c) had in any week within the period of 26 weeks immediately preceding that week been employed by the same employer in an EEA State,
shall be treated for the purposes of section 171ZV of the Act (entitlement to shared parental pay: adoption) as having been employed in employed earner's employment in those weeks in which the person was so employed in the EEA State.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3134/regulation/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-shared-parental-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-2014/regulation-7
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