{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neonatal-care-leave-and-pay-consequential-amendments-to-subordinate-legislation-regulations-2025/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/neonatal-care-leave-and-pay-consequential-amendments-to-subordinate-legislation-regulations-2025/regulation-25.json",
  "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/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Amendment to the Childcare Payments (Eligibility) Regulations 2015",
  "text": "(1) The Childcare Payments (Eligibility) Regulations 2015 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 12 (qualifying paid work: time off in connection with sickness or parenting)—\n(a) in paragraph (1)(n), after “the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996;” omit “or”;\n(b) at the end of paragraph (1)(o), for “.” substitute “;”;\n(c) after paragraph (1)(o), insert—\n“(p) in relation to England, Wales and Scotland only, is absent from work during a period of neonatal care leave under section 80EF of the Employment Rights Act 1996; or\n(q) in relation to England, Wales and Scotland only, is paid statutory neonatal care pay under Part 12ZE of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992.”;\n(d) in paragraph (4) after “paragraph (1)(b) to (m)” insert “, (p) or (q)”;\n(e) in paragraph (7)(a)—\n(i) after “paragraph (1)(a) to (c), (f)” for “or” substitute “,”;\n(ii) after “(i)” insert “, or (q)”;\n(f) in paragraph (7)(b)—\n(i) after “paragraph (1)(d), (e), (g), (h)” for “or” substitute “,”;\n(ii) after “(j) to (m)” insert “, or (p)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2015/448; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2016/793, S.I. 2017/1101, S.I. 2020/354, S.I. 2021/781 and S.R. 2023 No. 157."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/201/regulation/25",
    "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."
}