Regulation 9 Records to be maintained by employers

(1)

Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), every employer must maintain a record of—

(a)

in relation to an employee’s period of payment of statutory neonatal care pay—

(i)

the date on which that period began,

(ii)

the evidence of entitlement to statutory neonatal care pay provided by the employee pursuant to regulations made under section 171ZZ17(4)(f) of the 1992 Act^f1, and

(iii)

any week which was within a period of payment of statutory neonatal care pay but for which no payment of statutory neonatal care pay was made to the employee and the reason no payment was made; and

(b)

the weeks in which such payments were made and the amount paid in each week.

(2)

The records in paragraph (1)(a) must be maintained for a period of three years after the end of the tax year in which the employee’s period of payment of statutory neonatal care pay began.

(3)

The records in paragraph (1)(b) must be maintained for a period of three years after the end of the tax year in which the employer made payments of statutory neonatal care pay to the employee.

(4)

In this regulation, “period of payment of statutory neonatal care pay” means each week in respect of which statutory neonatal care pay is payable to a person under section 171ZZ19(2) of the 1992 Act.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Sections 171ZZ17 and 171ZZ19 were inserted by the Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Act 2023 (c. 20) Schedule 1(2) paragraph.5.