{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-statutory-neonatal-care-pay-general-regulations-2025/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-statutory-neonatal-care-pay-general-regulations-2025/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Number of weeks pay",
  "text": "(1) 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.\n(2) The maximum number of weeks in respect of which a person is entitled to payments of statutory neonatal care pay is 12 weeks.\n(3) 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.\n(4) 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.\n(5) 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348268041/regulation/7",
    "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."
}