Part 2: Parental Bereavement Pay 171ZZ9: Rate and period of Pay
Section 171ZZ9 states that the weekly statutory rate of Parental Bereavement 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 two weeks), and the ‘qualifying period’ within which the pay must be claimed (which must be a minimum of 56 days starting from the child’s death). 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 Parental Bereavement Pay.
	Employees may choose the start and end point of their statutory pay week. A week is any period of 7 days. If it is necessary to calculate a daily rate of statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (for the purposes of these provisions, or any Regulations), this should equal one seventh of the weekly rate.