The Civil Partnership (Employee Share Ownership Plans) Order 2007

Made

22nd January 2007

Laid before Parliament

23rd January 2007

Coming into force

13th February 2007

The Treasury are a Minister of the Crown within the meaning of the Ministers of the Crown Act 1975(1).

The Treasury make the following Order in exercise of the power conferred upon a Minister of the Crown by section 259 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004(2).

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Civil Partnership (Employee Share Ownership Plans) Order 2007 and shall come into force on 13th February 2007.

Amendment to the Employee Share Ownership Plans (Partnership Shares – Notice of Effects on Benefits, Statutory Sick Pay and Statutory Maternity Pay) Regulations 2000

2. --(1) The Employee Share Ownership Plans (Partnership Shares – Notice of Effects on Benefits, Statutory Sick Pay and Statutory Maternity Pay) Regulations 2000(3) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 in the second paragraph of the prescribed form of notice, omit the words "wife or husband" and substitute "spouse or civil partner".

Frank Roy

Claire Ward

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

22nd January 2007

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Employee Share Ownership Plans (Partnership Shares – Notice of Effects on Benefits Statutory Sick Pay and Statutory Maternity Pay) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2090: "the 2000 Regulations").

Article 1 provides for citation and commencement.

Article 2 amends regulation 2 of the 2000 Regulation. The words "wife or husband" are omitted from the prescribed form of notice and replaced by "spouse or civil partner". This reflects the changes made by the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33).

This Order does not impose any new costs on business.

( 1 )

1975 c.26. Back [1]

( 2 )

2004 c.33. Back [2]

( 3 )

S.I. 2000/2090. Back [3]

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