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As published
126 Further amendments
(1) Schedule 7 (which contains further amendments relating to statutory rights to leave and pay) has effect.
(2) 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.
(3) 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—
(a) after the commencement of paragraphs 12 and 13 of Schedule 1 to the Work and Families Act 2006, and
(b) before the commencement of paragraphs 12 and 13 of Schedule 7,
as a reference to ordinary statutory paternity pay.
(4) 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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126 Further amendments
(1) Schedule 7 (which contains further amendments relating to statutory rights to leave and pay) has effect.
(2) 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.
(3) 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—
(a) after the commencement of paragraphs 12 and 13 of Schedule 1 to the Work and Families Act 2006, and
(b) before the commencement of paragraphs 12 and 13 of Schedule 7,
as a reference to ordinary statutory paternity pay.
(4) 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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