{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-shared-parental-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-shared-parental-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/103",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-shared-parental-pay-persons-abroad-and-mariners-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Entitlement to statutory shared parental pay where person has worked in an EEA state",
  "text": "(1) A person who—\n(a) is an employee or treated as an employee under regulation 5;\n(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 Northern Ireland; and\n(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,\nshall be treated for the purposes of sections 167ZU and 167ZV 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.\n(2) A person who—\n(a) is an employee or treated as an employee under regulation 5;\n(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 Northern Ireland; and\n(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,\nshall be treated for the purposes of sections 167ZW and 167ZX 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 7(1)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Employment Rights (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/537), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 8(3)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Employment Rights (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/537), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 8(3)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 7(2)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Employment Rights (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/537), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 8(3)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Employment Rights (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/537), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 8(3)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 167ZU was inserted by 2015 c. 1 (N.I.), section 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Section 167ZW was inserted by 2015 c. 1 (N.I.), section 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 applied (with modifications) (15.3.2015) by The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/103), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 6(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/103/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:11.628432+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."
}