
2010 No. 302
EmploymentWork And Families
The Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (Weekly Rates) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010
Approved by resolution of the Assembly on 9th November 2010
Made 9th September 2010
Coming into operation 3rd October 2010
The Department for Employment and Learning makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 167ZEE(1) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 and section 5(1)(m) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992.
Citation and commencement
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (Weekly Rates) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 and come into operation on 3rd October 2010.
Weekly rate of payment of additional statutory paternity pay
2 
The weekly rate of payment of additional statutory paternity pay shall be the smaller of the following two amounts—
(a) £140∙98;
(b) 90% of the normal weekly earnings of the person claiming additional statutory paternity pay, determined in accordance with regulations 31 and 32 of the Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010.
Rounding of fractional amounts
3 
Where any payment of additional statutory paternity pay is made on the basis of a calculation at—
(a) the weekly rate specified in regulation 2(b); or
(b) the daily rate of one-seventh of the weekly rate specified in regulation 2(a) or (b),and that amount includes a fraction of a penny, the payment shall be rounded up to the nearest whole number of pence.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Employment and Learning on 9th September 2010.
Sir Reg Empey
Minister for Employment and Learning
