{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992/section-171ZZ17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992/section-171ZZ17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/4",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992",
  "path": "section/171ZZ17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "171ZZ17",
  "heading": "Entitlement: supplementary",
  "text": "(1) A person is entitled to payments of statutory neonatal care pay in respect of any period only if the person gives notice to whoever is liable to make the payments stating the week or weeks in respect of which they are to be made.\n(2) Regulations may provide for the time by which notice under subsection (1) must be given.\n(3) The notice must be in writing if the person who is liable to pay the statutory neonatal care pay so requests.\n(4) The Secretary of State may by regulations—\n(a) make special provision regarding the applicability and extent of the entitlement where a person satisfies the conditions in subsection (2) and (if applicable) subsection (3) of section 171ZZ16 in respect of—\n(i) more than one child in prescribed circumstances;\n(ii) a child receiving neonatal care on two or more separate occasions;\n(b) specify in what circumstances neonatal care is to be treated as continuous despite an interruption for the purposes of section 171ZZ16;\n(c) provide that subsection (2)(b), (2)(d) or (3) of section 171ZZ16 has effect subject to prescribed modifications in such cases as may be prescribed;\n(d) provide for circumstances in which section 171ZZ16(2)(c) does not have effect;\n(e) provide that subsection (1) of this section does not have effect, or has effect subject to prescribed modifications, in such cases as may be prescribed;\n(f) impose requirements about evidence of entitlement;\n(g) specify in what circumstances employment is to be treated as continuous for the purposes of section 171ZZ16;\n(h) provide that a person is to be treated for the purposes of section 171ZZ16 as being employed for a continuous period of at least 26 weeks where—\n(i) the person has been employed by the same employer for at least 26 weeks under two or more separate con-tracts of service, and\n(ii) those contracts were not continuous;\n(i) provide for amounts earned by a person under separate contracts of service with the same employer to be aggregated for the purposes of section 171ZZ16;\n(j) provide that—\n(i) the amount of a person’s earnings for any period, or\n(ii) the amount of the person’s earnings to be treated as comprised in any payment made to the person or for the person’s benefit,\nis to be calculated or estimated for the purposes of section 171ZZ16 in such manner and on such basis as may be prescribed and that for that purpose payments of a particular class or description made or falling to be made to or by a person shall, to such extent as may be prescribed, be disregarded or, as the case may be, be deducted from the amount of the person’s earnings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 12ZE inserted (17.1.2025) by Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act 2023 (c. 20), s. 3(3), Sch. para. 5; S.I. 2025/41, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 171ZZ17(1) excluded (6.4.2025) by The Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (General) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/376), regs. 1(2), 11(10) (with reg. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/4/section/171ZZ17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:29.915383+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."
}