PART 3Working-age benefits

CHAPTER 4Entitlement to work

Entitlement to work: statutory shared parental pay69.

(1)

Part 12ZC of the Contributions and Benefits Act (inserted by section 5 of the Work and Families Act (Northern Ireland) 2015) is amended as follows.

(2)

In section 167ZU(2) (entitlement: birth) after paragraph (c) insert—

“(ca)

that at the end of that prescribed week the claimant mother was entitled to be in that employment,”.

(3)

In section 167ZU(4) (entitlement: birth) after paragraph (d) insert—

“(da)

that at the end of that prescribed week the claimant was entitled to be in that employment,”.

(4)

In section 167ZW(2) (entitlement: adoption) after paragraph (c) insert—

“(ca)

that at the end of that prescribed week claimant A was entitled to be in that employment,”.

(5)

In section 167ZW(4) (entitlement: adoption) after paragraph (d) insert—

“(da)

that at the end of that prescribed week claimant B was entitled to be in that employment,”.