Part 2ENTITLEMENT

Number of weeks pay

regulation 7 + 7.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), the period in respect of which a person is entitled to statutory neonatal care pay is one week for every period of 7 days that C is in receipt of neonatal care without interruption.

(2) The maximum number of weeks in respect of which a person is entitled to payments of statutory neonatal care pay is 12 weeks.

(3) In a case where a person only meets the conditions in regulation 5(3) after C has already been in receipt of neonatal care, the period in respect of which that person is entitled to statutory neonatal care pay is one week for every period of 7 days that C is in receipt of neonatal care without interruption after the person met those conditions.

(4) Entitlement to statutory neonatal care pay may be accrued in respect of two or more separate occasions that C receives neonatal care if on each occasion C is in receipt of neonatal care for at least 7 days without interruption.

(5) For the purposes of this regulation and in relation to each separate occasion that C receives neonatal care, the first period of 7 days begins with the day after the day on which the neonatal care starts.