Part 2: Neonatal Care Pay Section 171ZZ19: Rate and period of pay
Section 171ZZ19 states that the weekly statutory rate of Neonatal Care Pay will be set in Regulations, which may include provisions for different rates for different situations.
	Regulations will specify the number of weeks’ entitlement (which must be a minimum of one week), and the ‘qualifying period’ within which the pay must be claimed (which must be a minimum of 68 weeks starting from the child’s birth). The employee will be able to choose the week or weeks for which pay is claimed, in accordance with the Regulations, and the Regulations may allow pay to be claimed for non-consecutive periods, which must be blocks of a week or weeks.
	Statutory pay is not payable if the employee is working for the employer who is liable to pay statutory pay. This is regardless of whether or not the work is performed under an existing contract of service, or a new one. It is also not payable if the employee is working for another employer who is not liable to pay statutory pay, but Regulations can prescribe situations where this does not apply for weeks taken as leave.
	Regulations may specify further circumstances in which an employer is not required to pay statutory Neonatal Care Pay.
	Employees may choose the start and end point of their statutory pay week. A week is any period of seven days. If it is necessary to calculate a daily rate of statutory Neonatal Care Pay (for the purposes of these provisions, or any Regulations), this should equal one seventh of the weekly rate.