[171ZB Entitlement: adoption]

[171ZB  Entitlement: adoption]

[(1)     Where a person satisfies the conditions in subsection (2) below, he shall be entitled in accordance with the following provisions of this Part to payments to be known as [“statutory paternity pay”].

(2)     The conditions are—

(a)     that he satisfies prescribed conditions—

(i)     as to relationship with a child who is placed for adoption under the law of any part of the United Kingdom, and

(ii)     as to relationship with a person with whom the child is so placed for adoption;

(b)     that he has been in employed earner's employment with an employer for a continuous period of at least 26 weeks ending with the relevant week;

[(ba)     that at the end of the relevant week he was entitled to be in that employment;]

(c)     that his normal weekly earnings for the period of 8 weeks ending with the relevant week are not less than the lower earnings limit in force under section 5(1)(a) at the end of the relevant week;

(d)     that he has been in employed earner's employment with the employer by reference to whom the condition in paragraph (b) above is satisfied for a continuous period beginning with the end of the relevant

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