Part 3CONDITIONS OF ENTITLEMENT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT AND EARNINGS

Continuous employment from the end of the relevant week

regulation 15 + 15.—(1) Except in a case falling within regulation 27(1) (avoidance of liability by a former employer), a person is not entitled to statutory neonatal care pay in respect of a particular week or period of consecutive weeks unless the week before that week or that period—

regulation 15 1 a + (a)the person is in employed earner’s employment with the employer by reference to whom the condition in section 171ZZ16(2)(b) of the 1992 Act is satisfied, and

regulation 15 1 b + (b)that employment has been continuous from the end of the relevant week.

(2) In a case where C is born before the relevant week, sub-paragraph (1)(b) has effect as if for “end of the relevant week” there were substituted “date of C’s birth”.