The Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (Administration) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022

Provision of information relating to entitlement to statutory parental bereavement pay

11.—(1) An employer must provide details to the employee of a decision that the employer has no liability to make payments of statutory parental bereavement pay to the employee and the reason for it where the employer—

(a) has been given evidence of entitlement to statutory parental bereavement pay pursuant to regulations made under section 167ZZ10(4)(c) of the 1992 Act, and

(b) decides that they have no liability to make payments of statutory parental bereavement pay to the employee.

(2) An employer must provide to the employee the information specified in paragraph (3) where the employer—

(a) has made one or more payments of statutory parental bereavement pay to the employee, but

(b) decides that they have no liability to make further payments to the employee because the employee has been detained in legal custody or sentenced to a term of imprisonment which was not suspended.

(3) The information specified in this paragraph is—

(a) details of the employer’s decision and the reasons for it, and

(b) details of the week in respect of which a liability to pay statutory parental bereavement pay arose.

(4) The employer must—

(a) return to the employee any evidence provided by the employee as referred to in paragraph (1) or (2),

(b) comply with the requirements imposed by paragraph (1) within 28 days of the day the employee gave evidence of entitlement to statutory parental bereavement pay pursuant to regulations made under section 167ZZ10(4)(c) of the 1992 Act, and

(c) comply with the requirements imposed by paragraph (2) within seven days of being notified of the employee’s detention or sentence.