{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-statutory-neonatal-care-pay-general-regulations-2025/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-statutory-neonatal-care-pay-general-regulations-2025/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348268041",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (General) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-statutory-neonatal-care-pay-general-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1992 Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;\n“the 1996 Act” means the Employment Rights Act 1996;\n“associated employer” is to be construed in accordance with section 231 of the 1996 Act;\n“C” means the child in relation to whom an entitlement to statutory neonatal care pay arises;\n“the Commissioners” means the Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs;\n“relevant week” has the meaning given in section 171ZZ16(6) of the 1992 Act;\n“statutory neonatal care pay” means statutory neonatal care pay payable in accordance with Part 12ZE of the 1992 Act;\n“statutory pay week” has the meaning given in section 171ZZ19(11) of the 1992 Act;\n“Tier 1 period” means the period beginning with the day C starts receiving neonatal care and ending with the 7th day after the day C stops receiving neonatal care;\n“Tier 2 period” means any period of time in the qualifying period specified in regulation 10 (qualifying period) which is not a tier 1 period;\n“week”, except in Part 3, means a period of seven days.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1996 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "For the meaning of “week” in Part 3 of these Regulations, see section 171ZZ24(5) of the 1992 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348268041/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:39:44.149893+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}