The Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (General) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022

Time when statutory parental bereavement pay is to be paid

24.—(1) In any case where—

(a) any decision has been made by an officer of Revenue and Customs under Article 7(1) (decisions by officers) of the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999(1) as a result of which a person is entitled to an amount of statutory parental bereavement pay; and

(b) the time for bringing an appeal against the decision has expired and either—

(i) no such appeal has been brought;

(ii) leave to appeal against the decision is required and has been refused; or

(iii) such appeal has been brought and has been finally disposed of;

that amount statutory parental bereavement pay shall be paid within the time specified in paragraph (2).

(2) The employer or former employer shall pay the amount not later than the first pay day after the following days (but see paragraphs (3) and (4))—

(a) where an appeal has been brought, the day on which the employer or former employer receives notification that it has been finally disposed of;

(b) where leave to appeal has been refused, and there remains no further opportunity to apply for leave, the day on which the employer or former employer receives notification of the refusal; and

(c) in any other case, the day on which the time for bringing an appeal expires.

(3) Where it is impracticable, in view of the employer’s or former employer’s methods of accounting for and paying remuneration, for the requirement of payment referred to in paragraph (2) to be met by the pay day referred to in that paragraph, it shall be met not later than the next following pay day (but see paragraph (4)).

(4) Where the employer or former employer would not have remunerated the employee for their work in the week in respect of which statutory parental bereavement pay is payable as early as the pay day specified in paragraph (2) or (if it applies) paragraph (3), the requirement of payment shall be met on the first day on which the employee would have been remunerated for work in that week.

(5) In this regulation “pay day” means a day on which it has been agreed, or it is the normal practice between an employer or former employer and a person who is or was an employee of theirs, that payments by way of remuneration are to be made, or, where there is no such agreement or normal practice, the last day of a calendar month.

(1)

S.I. 1999/671; Article 7(1) was amended by 2006 (S.I. 2006/1947 (N.I. 16)), Schedule 1, paragraph 43(1) and (2) and by 2015 c. 1 (N.I.), Schedule 1, paragraph 5(1) and (2).