Part 2: Parental Bereavement Pay 171ZZ6: Entitlement
Section 171ZZ6 provides that an employee will be eligible for Parental Bereavement Pay subject to meeting certain conditions.
	These conditions include:
							That the employee is a bereaved parent, because they meet the conditions to be set in Regulations as to their relationship with the child;
That the employee must have been continuously working for their employer for at least 26 weeks by the end of the week immediately before the one in which the child dies (this is known as the ‘relevant week’), and was legally entitled to be in that employment;
That the employee is still employed by this employer at the time of their child’s death and;
That, over an 8 week period ending with the end of the relevant week, the employee’s normal weekly earnings are not less than the Lower Earnings Limit (whatever this is at the end of the relevant week).
	Section 171ZZ6 specifies that the pay entitlement is applicable per deceased child.
	This section also ensures that the condition requiring someone to be legally entitled to be in the employment in relation to which they are claiming statutory pay will only apply when Section 63(3) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (which makes similar provision for Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory Adoption Pay and Statutory Paternity Pay) comes into force.