Section 119 | Statutory Shared Parental Pay | Children And Families Act 2014 C6

119 Statutory shared parental pay

Children and Families Act 2014 (2014 c 6) | Legislation

Statutory shared parental pay

119 Statutory shared parental pay

(1) In the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, after section 171ZT there is inserted—

“Part 12ZC
Statutory Shared Parental Pay

171ZU Entitlement: birth

(1) Regulations may provide that, where all the conditions in subsection (2) are satisfied in relation to a person who is the mother of a child (“the claimant mother”), the claimant mother is to be entitled in accordance with the following provisions of this Part to payments to be known as “statutory shared parental pay”.

(2) The conditions are—

(a) that the claimant mother and another person (“P”) satisfy prescribed conditions as to caring or intending to care for the child;

(b) that P satisfies prescribed conditions—

(i) as to employment or self-employment,

(ii) as to having earnings of a prescribed amount for a prescribed period, and

(iii) as to relationship either with the child or with the claimant mother;

(c) that the claimant mother has been in employed earner's employment with an employer for a continuous period of at least the prescribed length ending with a prescribed week;

(d) that at the end of that prescribed week the claimant mother was entitled to be in