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The Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (General) Regulations 2025

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. Part 1 GENERAL

    1. 1.Citation, commencement and extent

    2. 2.Application

    3. 3.Interpretation

    4. 4.Definition of neonatal care

  3. Part 2 ENTITLEMENT

    1. 5.Conditions of entitlement relating to parental or other personal relationship

    2. 6.Entitlement to statutory neonatal care pay in special circumstances

    3. 7.Number of weeks pay

    4. 8.More than one child in receipt of neonatal care

    5. 9.Options in respect of payment of statutory neonatal care pay

    6. 10.Qualifying period

    7. 11.Notice and evidence requirements for statutory neonatal care pay

    8. 12.Cases where there is no liability to pay statutory neonatal care pay

    9. 13.Work during period of payment of statutory neonatal care pay

  4. Part 3 CONDITIONS OF ENTITLEMENT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT AND EARNINGS

    1. 14.Treatment of persons as employees

    2. 15.Continuous employment from the end of the relevant week

    3. 16.Continuous employment even though no contract of service exists

    4. 17.Continuous employment and unfair dismissal

    5. 18.Continuous employment and stoppages of work

    6. 19.Modification for periods of employment between 25 and 26 weeks

    7. 20.Change of employer

    8. 21.Reinstatement after service with the armed forces

    9. 22.Treatment of two or more employers or two or more contracts of service as one

    10. 23.Normal weekly earnings

    11. 24.Modification of entitlement conditions: early birth

  5. Part 4 PAYMENT OF STATUTORY NEONATAL CARE PAY

    1. 25.Weekly rate of payment

    2. 26.Statutory neonatal care pay and contractual remuneration

    3. 27.Avoidance of liability for statutory neonatal care pay

    4. 28.Payment of statutory neonatal care pay

    5. 29.Payment following a decision by an officer of Revenue and Customs

    6. 30.Liability of the Commissioners to pay statutory neonatal care pay

    7. 31.Payments by the Commissioners

    8. 32.Persons unable to act

    9. 33.Service of notices

  6. Signature

    1. Schedule

      STATUTORY NEONATAL CARE PAY IN SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

      1. 1.Where, after the employee has accrued entitlement to statutory neonatal...

      2. 2.Where, after C has been placed with the adopter or...

      3. 3.Where, after C has entered Great Britain and the employee...

      4. 4.Where, after the employee has accrued entitlement to neonatal care...

      5. 5.Where this paragraph applies, these regulations apply as if the...

      6. 6.(1) Where the parental order does not proceed the modifications...

      7. 7.In paragraphs 4 and 6, the day on which the...

  7. Explanatory Note

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