Policy paper

Shared parental leave and pay: draft legislation

Draft legislation on the new system for shared parental leave and pay.

• From: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
• Published: 5 March 2014
• Last updated: 28 October 2014
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  1. 28 October 2014

     The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations 2014 pdf added to the page.

  2. 15 October 2014

     Amended draft of The Statutory Maternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Curtailment) Regulations and The Maternity Allowance (Curtailment) Regulations.

  3. 5 August 2014

     Revised draft regulations added.

  4. 3 April 2014

     Added 'Draft Maternity Allowance (Curtailment) Regulations 2014' and 'Draft Statutory Maternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Curtailment) Regulations 2014'.

  5. 19 March 2014

     Date to send in views on the draft legislation has closed - 6pm, 18 March.

  6. 11 March 2014

     Added closing date for receipt of comments.

  7. 5 March 2014

     First published.

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

This publication was withdrawn on 9 January 2015

The government has made changes to family-related leave and pay as part of its Modern Workplaces plan. These changes can be found at Legislation GOV.UK.

Documents

Draft Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations 2014

Ref: BIS/14/1172

PDF, 78.2 KB, 10 pages

Draft Statutory Maternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Curtailment) Regulations 2014

Ref: BIS/14/1142

PDF, 61.2 KB, 7 pages

Draft Maternity Allowance (Curtailment) Regulations 2014

Ref: BIS/14/1141

PDF, 39.7 KB, 5 pages

Details

On 21 July 2014, the government laid the following draft regulations in Parliament:

• Shared Parental Leave Regulations 2014
• Statutory Shared Parental Pay (General) Regulations 2014
• Maternity and Adoption Leave (Curtailment of Statutory Rights to Leave) Regulations 2014

On 13 October, further regulations were laid:

• The Employment Rights Act (Application of Sections 75G and 75H to Adoptions from Overseas) Regulations 2014

• The Shared Parental Leave and Paternity and Adoption Leave (Adoption from Overseas) Regulations 2014

• The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Adoption from Overseas) Regulations 2014

• The Employment Rights Act 1996 (Application of Sections 75A, 75B, 75G, 75H, 80A and 80B to Parental Order Cases) Regulations 2014

• The Paternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave (Parental Order Cases) Regulations 2014

• The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Parental Order Cases) Regulations 2014

• The Paternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2014

• Maternity and Parental Leave etc. (Amendment) Regulations 2014

These draft regulations are subject to the affirmative resolution procedure and will be debated by both Houses of Parliament.

Drafts of the following regulations are available at the top of this page:

• The Statutory Maternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Curtailment) Regulations
• The Maternity Allowance (Curtailment) Regulations
• The Statutory Shared Parental Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations

The remaining sets of regulations will be laid before Parliament in due course. A draft of The Statutory Maternity Pay and Statutory Adoption Pay (Curtailment) Regulations and The Maternity Allowance (Curtailment) Regulations are available as pdfs at the top of this page.