{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neonatal-care-leave-and-pay-consequential-amendments-to-subordinate-legislation-regulations-2025/regulation-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/201",
  "legislation_title": "The Neonatal Care Leave and Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neonatal-care-leave-and-pay-consequential-amendments-to-subordinate-legislation-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Amendment to the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—\n(a) in the definition of “employed earner”—\n(i) after “statutory sick pay” for “or” substitute “,”;\n(ii) after “statutory maternity pay” insert “or statutory neonatal care pay”;\n(b) at the appropriate place, insert—\n““neonatal care leave” means leave under section 80EF of the Employment Rights Act 1996;”.\n(3) In regulation 6 (remunerative work), in paragraph (7), after “parental bereavement leave” insert “, neonatal care leave”.\n(4) In regulation 28 (treatment of child care charges), in paragraph (14)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (a), after “parental bereavement leave” insert “, neonatal care leave”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (a)(i), after “parental bereavement leave” insert “, neonatal care leave”;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (a)(iii), after “statutory shared parental pay by virtue of section 171ZU or 171ZV of the Act” insert “, statutory neonatal care pay by virtue of section 171ZZ16 of the Act”;\n(d) in sub-paragraph (b), after “parental bereavement leave” insert “, neonatal care leave”;\n(e) in sub-paragraph (b)(ii), after “statutory shared parental pay” insert “, statutory neonatal care pay”;\n(f) in sub-paragraph (b)(iii), after “statutory shared parental pay” insert “, statutory neonatal care pay”.\n(5) In regulation 35 (earnings of employed earners), in paragraph (1)(i), after “statutory parental bereavement pay” insert “, statutory neonatal care pay”.\n(6) In regulation 36 (calculation of net earnings of employed earners), in paragraph (3)(d), after “statutory shared parental pay” insert “, statutory neonatal care pay”.\n(7) In regulation 75E (exception to the benefit cap: current or recent work), in paragraph (4), in the words after sub-paragraph (b), after “shared parental leave” insert “, neonatal care leave”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2006/213; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2012/757, S.I. 2012/2994, S.I. 2014/3255 and S.I. 2020/354."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/201/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:20:07.525800+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."
}