PART 5 U.K.PAYMENT OF STATUTORY SHARED PARENTAL PAY

Payments by the CommissionersU.K.

47.  Where the Commissioners become liable in accordance with regulation 45 (liability of the Commissioners to pay statutory shared parental pay) or regulation 46 (liability of the Commissioners to pay statutory shared parental pay in case of legal custody or imprisonment) then—

(a)the first payment is to be made as soon as reasonably practicable after they become so liable; and

(b)subsequent payments are to be made at weekly intervals;

by means of an instrument of payment or by such other means as appear to the Commissioners to be appropriate in the circumstances of any particular case.