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F1PART 12ZCStatutory shared parental pay

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171ZYRate and period of pay

1

Statutory shared parental pay is payable at such fixed or earnings-related weekly rate as may be prescribed by regulations, which may prescribe different kinds of rate for different cases.

2

Subject to the following provisions of this section, statutory shared parental pay is payable to a person in respect of each week falling within a relevant period, up to the number of weeks determined in the case of that person in accordance with regulations under section 171ZU(5) or 171ZV(5).

3

Except in such cases as may be prescribed, statutory shared parental pay is not payable to a person in respect of a week falling within a relevant period if it is not the person's intention at the beginning of the week to care for the child by reference to whom the person satisfies—

a

the condition in section 171ZU(2)(a) or (4)(a), or

b

the condition in section 171ZV(2)(a) or (4)(a).

4

Except in such cases as may be prescribed, statutory shared parental pay is not payable to a person in respect of a week falling within a relevant period during any part of which week the person works for any employer.

5

The Secretary of State may by regulations specify circumstances in which there is to be no liability to pay statutory shared parental pay in respect of a week falling within a relevant period.

6

Where for any purpose of this Part or of regulations it is necessary to calculate the daily rate of statutory shared parental pay, the amount payable by way of statutory shared parental pay for any day shall be taken as one seventh of the weekly rate.

7

For the purposes of this section a week falls within a relevant period if it falls within a period specified in a notice under—

a

section 171ZU(2)(j), (4)(k) or (13)(a), or

b

section 171ZV(2)(j), (4)(k) or (13)(a),

and is not afterwards excluded from such a period by a variation of the period or periods during which the person in question intends to claim statutory shared parental pay.

8

In this section “week”, in relation to a relevant period, means a period of seven days beginning with the day of the week on which the relevant period starts.