Time when statutory paternity pay and statutory adoption pay are to be paid
- Pay statutory paternity/adoption pay after HMRC decision confirmed Employer
Northern Ireland Statutory Rule
2002
United Kingdom
Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002
At a glance
What's here
1 compliance obligation
Who this Act binds
Business-side actors with duties under this Act, ranked by how often they appear.
- Employer 1
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Employers also bound by 694 other Acts (top 5 shown)
- The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations 2003 2003 236 duties
- Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 1998 120 duties
- TULRCA 1992 1992 72 duties
- Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (current NI employment law) 1996 52 duties
- Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 2003 50 duties
What this Act requires
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Citation and commencement
Interpretation
Application
Conditions of entitlement to statutory paternity pay (birth): relationship with newborn child and child’s mother
Modification of entitlement conditions: early birth
Period of payment of statutory paternity pay (birth)
Additional notice requirements for statutory paternity pay (birth)
Qualifying period for statutory paternity pay (birth)
Evidence of entitlement to statutory paternity pay (birth)
Entitlement to statutory paternity pay (birth) where there is more than one employer
Conditions of entitlement to statutory paternity pay (adoption): relationship with child and with person with whom the child is placed for adoption
Period of payment of statutory paternity pay (adoption)
Additional notice requirements for statutory paternity pay (adoption)
Qualifying period for statutory paternity pay (adoption)
Evidence of entitlement for statutory paternity pay (adoption)
Entitlement to statutory paternity pay (adoption) where there is more than one employer
Work during a statutory paternity pay period
Cases where there is no liability to pay statutory paternity pay
Statutory paternity pay and contractual remuneration
Avoidance of liability for statutory paternity pay
Adoption pay period
Adoption pay period in cases where adoption is disrupted
Additional notice requirements for statutory adoption pay
Evidence of entitlement to statutory adoption pay
Entitlement to statutory adoption pay where there is more than one employer
Work during an adoption pay period
Cases where there is no liability to pay statutory adoption pay
Statutory adoption pay and contractual remuneration
Termination of employment before start of adoption pay period
Avoidance of liability for statutory adoption pay
Introductory
Treatment of persons as employees
Continuous employment
Continuous employment and unfair dismissal
Continuous employment and stoppages of work
Change of employer
Reinstatement after service with the armed forces
Treatment of two or more employers or two or more contracts of service as one
Meaning of “earnings”
Normal weekly earnings
Payment of statutory paternity pay and statutory adoption pay
Liability of
Liability of the Board to pay statutory adoption pay in cases of legal custody or imprisonment
Payments by the Board
Persons unable to act
Service of notices by post
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