The Neonatal Care Leave and Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations 2025

Amendment to the Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2012

18.—(1) The Council Tax Reduction Schemes (Prescribed Requirements) (England) Regulations 2012(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), in paragraph (1) at the appropriate places insert—

““neonatal care leave” means leave under section 80EF of the Employment Rights Act 1996;”;

““statutory neonatal care pay” means a payment to which a person is entitled in accordance with section 171ZZ16 of the SSCBA;”.

(3) In regulation 10 (remunerative work), in paragraph (7) after “parental bereavement leave” insert “, neonatal care leave”.

(4) In Schedule 1 (pensioners: matters that must be included in an authority’s scheme)—

(a) in paragraph 16 (meaning of “income”), after sub-paragraph (1)(j)(xvib) insert—

“(xvic) statutory neonatal care pay under Part 12ZE of that Act;”;

(b) in paragraph 18 (earnings of employed earners), after sub-paragraph (1)(jb) insert—

“(jc) statutory neonatal care pay under Part 12ZE of that Act;”;

(c) in paragraph 19 (calculation of net earnings of employed earners), in sub-paragraph (2)(d) after “statutory parental bereavement pay” insert “, statutory neonatal care pay”;

(d) in paragraph 25 (treatment of childcare charges), in sub-paragraph (14)—

(i) in the opening words and in paragraph (a), for the words “maternity leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, parental bereavement leave or adoption leave” substitute “qualifying family leave”;

(ii) for paragraph (c) substitute—

“(c) he is entitled to either—

(i) statutory maternity pay under section 164 of the SSCBA,

(ii) statutory paternity pay by virtue of section 171ZA or 171ZB of that Act,

(iii) statutory adoption pay by virtue of section 171ZL of that Act,

(iv) maternity allowance under section 35 of that Act,

(v) statutory shared parental pay by virtue of section 171ZU or 171ZV of that Act,

(vi) statutory parental bereavement pay by virtue of section 171ZZ6 of that Act,

(vii) statutory neonatal care pay by virtue of section 171ZZ16 of that Act, or

(viii) qualifying support.”;

(e) in sub-paragraph (15)—

(i) in the opening words, for the words “maternity, paternity leave, shared parental leave, parental bereavement leave or adoption leave” substitute “qualifying family leave”;

(ii) in paragraph (b) after “statutory parental bereavement pay” insert “, statutory neonatal care pay”;

(iii) in paragraph (c) after “statutory parental bereavement pay” insert “, statutory neonatal care pay”;

(f) in sub-paragraph (16), before paragraph (a) insert—

“(za) “qualifying family leave” means any of the following—

(i) adoption leave;

(ii) maternity leave;

(iii) neonatal care leave;

(iv) parental bereavement leave;

(v) paternity leave;

(vi) shared parental leave;”.

(1)

S.I. 2012/2885; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2014/3255, S.I. 2017/1305, S.I. 2017/422, S.I. 2018/1346, S.I. 2020/23, S.I. 2021/29 and S.I. 2023/16.