The Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) and the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Weekly Rates) (Amendment) Regulations 2006

• Citation: S.I. 2006/2236
• Sections: 7

Section 1 Citation and Commencement

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) and the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Weekly Rates) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 1st October 2006.

Section 2 Application

The amendments to the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) Regulations 2002 and the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Weekly Rates) Regulations 2002 provided for by regulations 4 to 7 apply in relation to an entitlement to—

(a) statutory paternity pay (birth) in respect of children whose expected week of birth begins on or after 1st April 2007;

(b) statutory paternity pay (adoption) and statutory adoption pay in respect of children expected to be placed for adoption, where the placement is expected to occur on or after 1st April 2007.

Section 3 Amendments to the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) Regulations 2002

The Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) Regulations 2002 shall be amended as follows.

Section 4 Amendments to the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) Regulations 2002

In regulation 21 (adoption pay period), in paragraph (5), for “26” substitute “39”.

Section 5 Amendments to the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) Regulations 2002

After regulation 27 (cases where there is no liability to pay statutory adoption pay) insert—

Working for not more than 10 days during an adoption pay period

(27A) In the case where an employee does any work under a contract of service with his employer on any day for not more than 10 such days during his adoption pay period, whether consecutive or not, statutory adoption pay shall continue to be payable to the employee by the employer.

Section 6 Amendment to the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Weekly Rates) Regulations 2002

The Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Weekly Rates) Regulations 2002 shall be amended as follows.

Section 7 Amendment to the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Weekly Rates) Regulations 2002

For regulation 4 (rounding of fractional amounts) substitute—

(4) Where any payment of—

(a) statutory paternity pay is made on the basis of a calculation at—

(i) the weekly rate specified in regulation 2(b); or

(ii) the daily rate of one-seventh of the weekly rate specified in regulation 2(a) or (b); or

(b) statutory adoption pay is made on the basis of a calculation at—

(i) the weekly rate specified in regulation 3(b); or

(ii) the daily rate of one-seventh of the weekly rate specified in regulation 3(a) or (b),

and that amount includes a fraction of a penny, the payment shall be rounded up to the next whole number of pence.