{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/work-and-families-act-2006/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/work-and-families-act-2006/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/18",
  "legislation_title": "Work and Families Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/work-and-families-act-2006",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Adoption pay period",
  "text": "In section 171ZN(2) of SSCBA 1992 (which specifies the maximum period that may be prescribed as the period for which statutory adoption pay is payable), for “26 weeks” substitute “ 52 weeks ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 27.6.2006 for specified purposes by S.I. 2006/1682, art. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 1.10.2006 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2006/1682, art. 3(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/18/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:33.794173+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."
}