SCHEDULENeonatal care leave and pay
PART 3Further amendments to do with neonatal care leave and pay
Welfare Reform Act 2007
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1
Section 20 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (relationship with statutory payments) is amended as follows.
2
After subsection (7) insert—
7A
Except as regulations may provide, a person who is entitled to statutory neonatal care pay is not entitled to an employment and support allowance in respect of a day that falls within a period in respect of which statutory neonatal care pay is payable.
7B
Regulations may provide that—
a
an amount equal to a person’s statutory neonatal care pay for a period shall be deducted from an employment and support allowance in respect of the same period,
b
a person shall only be entitled to an employment and support allowance if there is a balance after the deduction, and
c
if there is such a balance, a person shall be entitled to an employment and support allowance at a weekly rate equal to it.
3
The references to an employment and support allowance in new subsections (7A) and (7B), and in sub-paragraph (4) of this paragraph, are references to an employment and support allowance payable under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 as amended by the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
4
For as long as a contributory allowance continues to be payable, new subsections (7A) and (7B) are to apply to a contributory allowance as they apply to an employment and support allowance.
5
In this paragraph—
a
“new subsections (7A) and (7B)” means subsections (7A) and (7B) inserted by this paragraph into section 20 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007;
b
“contributory allowance” has the meaning given by section 1(7) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 before its repeal by the Welfare Reform Act 2012.
6
In subsection (8), in the definition of “the adoption pay period”, for “that Act” substitute “the Contributions and Benefits Act”
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