7.—(1) A person who—
(a)is an employee or treated as an employee under regulation 5,
(b)in the relevant week, was in employed earner’s employment with an employer in Great Britain, and
(c)had, in any week within the period of 26 weeks ending with the relevant week, been employed by the same employer in an EEA state,
shall be treated for the purposes of section 171ZZ6 of the Act (entitlement to statutory parental bereavement pay) as having been employed in employed earner’s employment with an employer in those weeks in which the person was so employed in the EEA state.
(2) In paragraph (1), “relevant week” means the week immediately before the one in which the child dies.