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The Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (General) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023, Section 25 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 17 October 2024. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
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25.—(1) Despite section 167ZZ11(1) of the 1992 Act (liability to make payments of statutory parental bereavement pay is liability of the employer), where the conditions in regulation 24(1)(a) and (b) are satisfied, liability to make payments of statutory parental bereavement pay to a person is to be the liability of the Commissioners and not the employer for—
(a)any week in respect of which the employer was liable to pay statutory parental bereavement pay to that person but did not do so; and
(b)for any subsequent week that person is entitled to payments of statutory parental bereavement pay.
(2) Despite section 167ZZ11(1) of the 1992 Act, liability to make payments of statutory parental bereavement pay to a person is to be a liability of the Commissioners and not the employer as from the week in which the employer first becomes insolvent (see paragraphs (3) and (4)) until the last week that person is entitled to payment of statutory parental bereavement pay.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) an employer shall be taken to be insolvent if, and only if—
(a)the employer has been adjudged bankrupt or has made a composition or arrangement with its creditors;
(b)the employer has died and the employer’s estate falls to be administered in accordance with an order made under Article 365 of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989(1); or
(c)where an employer is a company or a limited liability partnership—
(i)a winding-up order is made or a resolution for a voluntary winding-up is passed (or, in the case of a limited liability partnership, a determination for voluntary winding-up has been made) with respect to it;
(ii)it enters administration;
(iii)a receiver or manager of its undertaking is duly appointed;
(iv)possession is taken, by or on behalf of the holders of any debentures secured by a floating charge, of any property of the company or limited liability partnership comprised in or subject to the charge; or
(v)a voluntary arrangement proposed for the purposes of Part 1 of the Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 is approved under that Part.
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