Section 126: Further amendments

Children and Families Act 2014 · 2014 c. 6View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 7: Statutory rights to leave and pay

Schedule 7 (which contains further amendments relating to statutory rights to leave and pay) has effect.

A reference to ordinary statutory paternity pay in an instrument or document made before the commencement of paragraphs 12 and 13 of Schedule 7 is to be read, in relation to any time after that commencement, as a reference to statutory paternity pay.

A reference to statutory paternity pay in an enactment (including an enactment amended by this Act) or in an instrument or document is to be read, in relation to any time that falls—

after the commencement of paragraphs 12 and 13 of Schedule 1 to the Work and Families Act 2006, and
before the commencement of paragraphs 12 and 13 of Schedule 7,

as a reference to ordinary statutory paternity pay.

Subsection (3) does not apply to the extent that a reference to statutory paternity pay is a reference to additional statutory paternity pay.

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