The Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023

Made

Coming into operation: 2nd April 2023

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PART 1 — GENERAL

Citation and Commencement

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Application

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Interpretation

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PART 2 — ENTITLEMENT

Conditions of entitlement to statutory parental bereavement pay

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Number of weeks of pay

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Options in respect of payment of statutory parental bereavement pay

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Qualifying period

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Notice and evidence requirements for statutory parental bereavement pay

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Cases where there is no liability to pay statutory parental bereavement pay

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Work during period of payment of statutory parental bereavement pay

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PART 3 — CONDITIONS OF ENTITLEMENT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT AND EARNINGS

Treatment of persons as employees

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Continuous employment

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Continuous employment and unfair dismissal

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Continuous employment and stoppages of work

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Modification for periods of employment between 25 and 26 weeks

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Change of employer

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Reinstatement after service with the armed forces

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Treatment of two or more employers or two or more contracts of service as one

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Normal weekly earnings

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PART 4 — PAYMENT OF STATUTORY PARENTAL BEREAVEMENT PAY

Weekly rate of payment

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Statutory parental bereavement pay and contractual remuneration

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Avoidance of liability for statutory parental bereavement pay

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Payment of statutory parental bereavement pay

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Time when statutory parental bereavement pay is to be paid

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Liability of the Commissioners to pay statutory parental bereavement pay

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Liability of the Commissioners to pay statutory parental bereavement pay in cases of legal custody or imprisonment

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Payments by the Commissioners

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Persons unable to act

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Service of notices

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PART 5 — TRANSITIONAL, REVOCATION AND EXPIRY

Transitional provisions

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Revocation

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Expiry

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Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for the Economy on 30th March 2023.

Colin Jack — A senior officer of the — Department for the Economy

The Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs concur

Penny Ciniewicz — Joanna Rowland — Two of the Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs — 28th March 2023

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1992 c. 7; section 167ZZ9 to section 167ZZ17 were inserted by the Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 (c. 5 (N.I.)), Section 2. Sections 167ZZ9 to 167ZZ11 and 167ZZ17 are temporarily modified by section 3 of that Act.

[^f00002]: 1992 c.8; section 5(4A)(a) was amended by 2022 c. 5 (N.I.), Schedule 1, paragraph 10.

[^f00003]: The Department for Employment and Learning was dissolved by section 1(10) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland)2016 c. 5 (N.I.). Its functions under the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, were transferred to the Department for the Economy by the Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016 No. 76), Article 6(1)(c).

[^f00004]: 2022 c. 5 (N.I.).

[^f00005]: Regulations made by the Department for the Economy pursuant to 1992 c. 7, sections 167ZZ11(3) and 167ZZ17(4), (5), (7) and (8), must, by virtue of those sections, be made with the concurrence of the Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. By virtue of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11), section 50(1), references to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue in statutory provisions are to be taken as references to the Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.

[^f00006]: S.R. 1996 No.467.

[^f00007]: S.R. 1989 No. 253.

[^f00008]: S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2).

[^f00009]: 2008 c. 22; section 54 was amended by the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), Schedule 11, Part 1, paragraph 206 and by S.I. 2018/1413.

[^f00010]: Section 54A was inserted by S.I. 2018/1413.

[^f00011]: S.R. 1989 No. 253.

[^f00012]: 2002 c. 38.

[^f00013]: 2007 asp 4.

[^f00014]: 1989 c. 41.

[^f00015]: Section 22C was inserted by the Children and Young Persons Act 2009 (c. 23), section 8 and amended by the Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), section 2 and Schedule 2, part 1, paragraph 29. S.I. 2016/413 and S.I.2018/195.

[^f00016]: 2014 anaw.4/dccc.

[^f00017]: S.I. 2005/389; regulation 30B was substituted by S.I. 2013/985.

[^f00018]: S.I. 2005/1313.

[^f00019]: S.R. 2003 No. 16.

[^f00020]: The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety was renamed the Department of Health under section 1 of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5).

[^f00021]: For the meaning of ‘week’ in Part 3, see section 167ZZ17(5) of the 1992 Act.

[^f00022]: 1954 c. 33 (N.I.).

[^f00023]: 1978 c. 30.

[^f00024]: Section 51A was inserted by the Children and Families Act 2014, section 9.

[^f00025]: Section 11(3)(aa) was inserted by the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007, section 107.

[^f00026]: Article 31(3) was amended by Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2)), Schedule 9, paragraph 154(2).

[^f00027]: Sections 32, 34 and 35 were amended by the Children and Families Act 2014, Schedule 2, Part 2, paragraphs 63 and 64 and by S.I. 2016/413.

[^f00028]: S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2).

[^f00029]: For the definition of “statutory pay week”, see section 167ZZ12 of the 1992 Act.

[^f00030]: S.R. 1978 No. 401, amended for relevant purposes by S.R. 1980 No. 405, S.R. 1990 No. 339, S.R. 1994 No. 92, S.R. 1998 No. 250, S.I. 2003/733, S.I 2003/2421, 2004/770, S.I. 2005/3134, S.I. 2006/1531 and S.I. 2014/635.

[^f00031]: S.I. 2001/1004; regulation 145 was amended by S.I. 2012/817.

[^f00032]: S.I. 1996/1919 (N.I. 16).

[^f00033]: Article 142 was amended by the Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1265 (N.I. 8)), Article 13(1) to (3) and (5).

[^f00034]: S.I. 1996/1921 (N.I. 18), Articles 20A to 20C were inserted by the Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, section 1; S.R. 2020 No. 1, Article 2(a).

[^f00035]: S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15).

[^f00036]: 1985 c. 17.

[^f00037]: Schedule 3 was amended by S.I. 2001/2412, 2001/3629, 2002/307, 2002/2924, 2003/1059, 2003/2085, 2003/2340, 2003/2985, 2004/173, 2004/770, 2004/2096, 2005/728, 2005/778, 2005/2422, 2005/3130, 2006/576, 2006/883, 2006/2003, 2006/2829, 2007/2091, 2007/2401, 2007/2905, 2008/607, 2008/1431, 2008/2624, 2009/600, 2010/188, 2011/225, 2011/797, 2011/1000, 2011/2700, 2012/817, 2013/622, 2013/1142, 2013/1907, 2014/608, 2014/3159, 2014/3228, 2015/478, 2015/543, 2016/352, 2016/647, 2016/1067, 2017/307, 2017/373, 2018/120; regulation 27 was amended by S.I. 2004/770, 2005/3130.

[^f00038]: Section 10A was inserted by the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)), Article 50.

[^f00039]: Section 4B was inserted by the National Insurance Contributions Act 2006 (c. 10), section 2(1).

[^f00040]: S.I. 1996/1919 (N.I. 16); Article 217(1) was substituted by, Article 217(1A) and (1B) was inserted by and paragraph (4) was amended by S.R. 1999 No. 432, and further amended by Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 15),s. 29(2),Sch. 2 para. 39.

[^f00041]: Section 147(6) was amended by paragraph 10 of Schedule 1 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I.1999/671).

[^f00042]: S.I. 1999/671; Article 7(1) was amended by 2006 (S.I. 2006/1947 (N.I. 16)), Schedule 1, paragraph 43(1) and (2) and by 2015 c. 1 (N.I.), Schedule 1, paragraph 5(1) and (2).

[^f00043]: S.I. 1989/2405 (N.I. 19).

[^f00044]: S.R. 2022 No. 238.

[^f00045]: 1954 c. 33 (N.I.).

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