Regulation 5 Time off in connection with childbirth , parental bereavement and or adoptionF1F23F24F25

This regulation applies for any period during which a person—

For the purposes of the F14conditions of entitlement in this Part, the person is treated as being engaged in qualifying remunerative work during the period.

• This is subject to F15paragraphs (3), (3A) F16, (3C) and regulation 7D.

The person must have been engaged in qualifying remunerative work F17, or treated under regulation 7E as being engaged in such work, immediately before the beginning of the period.

A person shall only be treated as being engaged in qualifying remunerative work by virtue of paragraph (1)(ea) for such period as that person would have been paid additional statutory paternity pay had the conditions of entitlement in F19... Parts 2 or 3 of the Additional Statutory Paternity Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 been satisfied.

A person shall only be treated as being engaged in qualifying remunerative work by virtue of paragraph (1)(i) for such period as that person would have been paid statutory shared parental pay had the conditions of entitlement in Parts 2 or 3 of the Statutory Shared Parental Pay (General) Regulations 2014 been satisfiedF21;

A person shall only be treated as being engaged in qualifying remunerative work by virtue of paragraph (1)(k) for such period as that person would have been paid statutory parental bereavement pay had the conditions of entitlement in Part 2 of the Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (General) Regulations 2020 F22or Part 2 of the Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (General) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 been satisfied.

A person who is self-employed is treated as engaged in qualifying remunerative work for the requisite number of hours during any period for which paragraph (1) would have applied in his case but for the fact that the work he performed in the week immediately before the period began, although done for payment or in the expectation of payment, was not performed under a contract of service or apprenticeship.