[171ZV Entitlement: adoption]

[171ZV  Entitlement: adoption]

[(1)     Regulations may provide that, where all the conditions in subsection (2) are satisfied in relation to a person with whom a child is, or is expected to be, placed for adoption under the law of any part of the United Kingdom (“claimant A”), claimant A is to be entitled in accordance with the following provisions of this Part to payments to be known as “statutory shared parental pay”.

(2)     The conditions are—

(a)     that claimant A and another person (“X”) satisfy prescribed conditions as to caring or intending to care for the child;

(b)     that X satisfies prescribed conditions—

(i)     as to employment or self-employment,

(ii)     as to having earnings of a prescribed amount for a prescribed period, and

(iii)     as to relationship either with the child or with claimant A;

(c)     that claimant A has been in employed earner's employment with an employer for a continuous period of at least the prescribed length ending with a prescribed week;

(d)     that at the end of that prescribed week claimant A was entitled to be in that employment;

(e)     that claimant A's normal weekly earnings for a prescribed period ending with a prescribed week are not

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