Part 3CONDITIONS OF ENTITLEMENT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT AND EARNINGS

Continuous employment from the end of the relevant week

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—

(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

(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”.