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The Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (General) Regulations 2002
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- 2002 No. 2822
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- Regulation 7
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Additional notice requirements for statutory paternity pay (birth)E+W+S
7.—(1) Where the choice made by a person in accordance with paragraph (1) of regulation 6 and notified in accordance with section 171ZC(1) of the Act is that mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of that paragraph, the person shall give further notice to the person liable to pay him statutory paternity pay, as soon as is reasonably practicable after the child’s birth, of the date the child was born;
(2) Where the choice made by a person in accordance with paragraph (1) of regulation 6 and notified in accordance with section 171ZC(1) of the Act is that specified in sub-paragraph (c) of that paragraph, and the date of the child’s birth is later than the date so specified, the person shall, if he wishes to claim statutory paternity pay (birth), give notice to the person liable to pay it, as soon as is reasonably practicable, that the period in respect of which statutory paternity pay is to be paid shall begin on a date different from that originally chosen by him.
(3) That date may be any date chosen in accordance with paragraph (1) of regulation 6.
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