Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992

[F1 167ZZ10 Entitlement: supplementary U.K.

(1) A person is entitled to payments of statutory parental bereavement pay in respect of any period only if the person gives notice to whoever is liable to make the payments stating the week or weeks in respect of which they are to be paid.

(2) Regulations may provide for the time by which notice under subsection (1) must be given.

(3) The notice must be in writing if the person who is liable to pay the statutory parental bereavement pay so requests.

(4) The Department may by regulations—

(a) provide that section 167ZZ9(2)(b) or (c) or (5) to (7) have effect subject to prescribed modifications in such cases as may be prescribed;

(b) provide that subsection (1) of this section does not have effect, or has effect subject to prescribed modifications, in such cases as may be prescribed;

(c) impose requirements about evidence of entitlement;

(d) specify in what circumstances employment is to be treated as continuous for the purposes of section 167ZZ9;

(e) provide that a person is to be treated for the purposes of section 167ZZ9 as being employed for a continuous period of at least 8 weeks where—

(i) the person has been employed by the same employer for at least 8 weeks under two or more separate contracts of service, and

(ii) those contracts were not continuous;

(f) provide for amounts earned by a person under separate contracts of service with the same employer to be aggregated for the purposes of section 167ZZ9;

(g) provide that—

(i) the amount of a person’s earnings for any period, or

(ii) the amount of the person’s earnings to be treated as comprised in any payment made to the person or for the person’s benefit,

is to be calculated or estimated for the purposes of section 167ZZ9 in such manner and on such basis as may be prescribed and that for that purpose payments of a particular class or description made or falling to be made to or by a person shall, to such extent as may be prescribed, be disregarded or, as the case may be, be deducted from the amount of the person’s earnings.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Pt. 12ZD inserted (22.3.2022) by Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 5), ss. 2, 5(1)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. 12ZD excluded (29.9.2023) by The Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (General) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/155), regs. 1, 11(5)

C2 Pt. 12ZD modified (29.9.2023) by The Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (General) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/155), regs. 1, 18(1)

C3 Pt. 12ZD modified (29.9.2023) by The Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (General) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (S.R. 2023/155), regs. 1, 11(4)

C4 S. 167ZZ10(4) modified (temp.) (22.3.2022 with effect in accordance with s. 3(1)(2) of the amending Act) by Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 5), ss. 3(3)(6), 5(1)