Legislation – The Statutory Paternity Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Normal Weekly Earnings etc.) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

The Statutory Paternity Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Normal Weekly Earnings etc.) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020
2020 No. 70
Employment
Terms And Conditions Of Employment

The Statutory Paternity Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Normal Weekly Earnings etc.) (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

Made
Coming into operation
The Department for the Economy makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 167ZJ(8), 167ZS(8), 167ZZ7(8) and 171(3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 19921 and now vested in it2.
Regulations 3 and 4 are made with the concurrence of the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs3.
1

1992 c. 7. Sections 167ZJ and 167ZS were inserted by the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2836 (N.I. 2)), Articles 5 and 6 respectively. Section 167ZJ was amended by the Work and Families Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c.1 (N.I.)), section 14 and Schedule 1, paragraph 17. Section 167ZS was amended by S.R. 2006 No. 261, Schedule 7, paragraph 1(7) and Schedule 8 and by the National Insurance Contributions Act 2014 (c. 7), Schedule 2, paragraph 12. Section 167ZZ7 was inserted by 2015 c. 1 (N.I.), section 5(2). Section 171 was amended by the Coronavirus Act 2020 (c. 7), section 44(b).

2

The Department for Employment and Learning was dissolved by section 1(10) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 c. 5 (N.I.). Its functions under the Social Security Contribution and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, except under section 123A, were transferred to the Department for the Economy by the Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016 No. 76), article 6(1)(c).

3

1992 c.7, sections 167ZJ(13), 167ZS(13) and 167ZZ7(13). The functions of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue under sections 167ZJ(13) and 167ZS(13) vested in the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs by virtue of section 5(2)(a) of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 c.11.