Additional paternity leave comes into force in Northern Ireland
Implementation date: 3 October 2010
Employees who are fathers, or spouses or partners of mothers, and employees who have been matched for adoption and are spouses or partners of the person taking adoption leave are entitled to take additional statutory paternity leave of up to 26 weeks in the first year of their child’s life or the first year after the child’s placement for adoption. Additional paternity leave applies in respect of children whose expected week of birth is on or after 3 April 2011, or children matched for adoption with a person who is notified of the match on or after 3 April 2011. In certain circumstances, employees who are entitled to additional statutory paternity leave will be entitled to additional statutory paternity pay. Read the Regulations on the UK legislation website:
- Additional Paternity Leave Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (SI 2010/297) The Regulations introduce the entitlement to additional statutory paternity leave.
- Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (SI 2010/300) The Regulations introduce the entitlement to additional statutory paternity pay.
- Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (Birth, Adoption and Adoptions from Overseas) (Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (SI 2010/299) The Regulations prescribe the mechanism for employers to be reimbursed for payments of additional statutory paternity pay and impose obligations on employers in respect of such payments.
- Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (Weekly Rates) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (SI 2010/302) The Regulations prescribe the weekly rate for additional statutory paternity pay.
- Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (Adoptions from Overseas) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (SI 2010/298) The Regulations set out the application of additional statutory paternity pay to adoptions from overseas.
- Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (Application of Parts 12ZA and 12ZB to Adoptions from Overseas) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (SI 2010/305) The Regulations apply the provisions of part 12ZA of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 that relate to additional statutory paternity pay, to adoptions from overseas.
- Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (SI 2010/306) The Regulations amend the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 (SR 2002/382).
- Ordinary Statutory Paternity Pay (Adoption), Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (Adoption) and Statutory Adoption Pay (Adoptions from Overseas) (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (SI 2010/304) The Regulations amend the application of the Statutory Paternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 (SI 2002/382) in respect of adoptions from overseas.
- Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (Health and Social Care Employees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (SI 2010/301) The Regulations allow certain employees of Health and Social Care trusts with two or more contracts of employment to treat those contracts as one.
