Regulation 7 Number of weeks pay

Subject to paragraph (3), the period in respect of which a person is entitled to statutory neonatal care pay is one week for every period of 7 days that C is in receipt of neonatal care without interruption.

The maximum number of weeks in respect of which a person is entitled to payments of statutory neonatal care pay is 12 weeks.

In a case where a person only meets the conditions in regulation 5(3) after C has already been in receipt of neonatal care, the period in respect of which that person is entitled to statutory neonatal care pay is one week for every period of 7 days that C is in receipt of neonatal care without interruption after the person met those conditions.

Entitlement to statutory neonatal care pay may be accrued in respect of two or more separate occasions that C receives neonatal care if on each occasion C is in receipt of neonatal care for at least 7 days without interruption.

For the purposes of this regulation and in relation to each separate occasion that C receives neonatal care, the first period of 7 days begins with the day after the day on which the neonatal care starts.