SCHEDULE 7 Statutory Rights to Leave and Pay: Further Amendments

SCHEDULE 7 Statutory Rights to Leave and Pay: Further Amendments

Section 126

Social Security Act 1989 (c 24)

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Schedule 5 to the Social Security Act 1989 (employment-related schemes for pensions or other benefits to comply with the principle of equal treatment for men and women) is amended as follows.

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(1)     Paragraph 5A (schemes that contain unfair paternity leave provisions) is amended as follows.

(2)     In sub-paragraph (3) (how scheme affected), in the words following paragraph (b), for “, ordinary statutory paternity pay or additional statutory paternity pay†there is substituted “or statutory paternity payâ€.

(3)     In sub-paragraph (4) (definitions), in the definition of “period of paid paternity leaveâ€â€”

(a)     in paragraph (a), after “(6), (7)†there is inserted “, (7A) or (7B)â€;

(b)     in paragraph (a), the words “or (8)†are repealed;

(c)     in paragraph (b), for “, ordinary statutory paternity pay or additional statutory paternity pay†there is substituted “or statutory paternity payâ€.

(4)     In sub-paragraph (7) (type of paid paternity leave: where adoption does not involve placement for adoption under the law of any part of the United Kingdom), for “section 171ZK†there is substituted “section 171ZK(1)â€.

(5)     After sub-paragraph (7) there is inserted—

“(7´¡)

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