Section 171ZZ21 Relationship with contractual remunerationF1

(1)

Subject to subsections (2) and (3), any entitlement to statutory neonatal care pay does not affect any right of a person in relation to remuneration under any contract of service (“contractual remuneration”).

(2)

Subject to subsection (3)—

(a)

any contractual remuneration paid to a person by an employer of that person in respect of any period is to go towards discharging any liability of that employer to pay statutory neonatal care pay to that person in respect of that period; and

(b)

any statutory neonatal care pay paid by an employer to a person who is an employee of that employer in respect of any period is to go towards discharging any liability of that employer to pay contractual remuneration to that person in respect of that period.

(3)

Regulations may make provision as to payments which are, and those which are not, to be treated as contractual remuneration for the purposes of subsections (1) and (2).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: 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

Notes on Part 12ZE

Modifications

C1: Pt. 12ZE modified (6.4.2025) by The Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (Persons Abroad and Mariners) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/202), regs. 1(2), 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 (with regs. 3, 4)
C2: Pt. 12ZE modified (6.4.2025) by The Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (General) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/376), regs. 1(2), 14 (with reg. 2)