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In which circumstances is an employee entitled to receive ordinary statutory paternity pay? What notice to take ordinary paternity leave and pay in respect of a new baby is an employee required to give? What notice to take ordinary paternity leave and pay in respect of a child adopted from within the UK is an employee required to give? Can an employer recover any ordinary statutory paternity pay that it pays out? In which circumstances is an employee entitled to receive additional statutory paternity pay? Under the statutory provisions can an employee take less than a week's ordinary paternity leave? Does an employee due to take paid statutory ordinary paternity leave in an adoption situation still qualify for paternity pay if the employee leaves the employment before the leave is due to start? For how many weeks may an employee be paid additional statutory paternity pay? What information must an employee applying to take statutory additional paternity pay provide in a birth situation? How should an employer respond to an employee's notice of intention to take additional paternity leave and pay? What information must an employee who is adopting a child from within the UK provide when applying to take additional statutory paternity pay? For the purposes of entitlement to statutory additional paternity leave, in what circumstances is the mother treated as having returned to work? How much notice of intention to take additional paternity leave and pay is an employee required to give? To how much additional paternity pay is an employee entitled if the mother returns to work with, for example, six weeks' statutory maternity pay remaining, but the employee does not begin additional paternity leave until two weeks later? To how much additional paternity pay is an employee entitled if the primary adopter returns to work with, for example, six weeks' statutory adoption pay remaining, but the employee does not begin additional paternity leave until two weeks later? Where an employee's wife or partner has given birth to twins, will he be entitled to two periods of additional paternity leave and pay? Does an employee still qualify for additional statutory paternity pay if the employee leaves the employment before the additional paternity leave is due to start? If an employee who qualifies for additional paternity pay is dismissed as redundant should he be paid his full additional paternity pay entitlement? Can an employer recover any additional statutory paternity pay that it pays out? Can an employee take on paid work during additional paternity leave?