Social
Security (Parental Benefit) (Jersey) Amendment Order 2024
Made 13 December 2024
Coming into
force 16 December 2024
1 Amendment of the Social Security (Parental
Benefit) (Jersey) Order 2020
This Order amends the Social Security (Parental Benefit)
(Jersey) Order 2020.
2 Article 7
(application for parental allowance) amended
(1) In
Article 7(1) for “Article 22(2)(b)” there is substituted “Article 22(b)”.
(2) In
Article 7(2) for “date of adoption” there is substituted “adoption date as
defined in Article 22A of the Law”.
3 Article 7A (payment
of parental allowance under Article 22B of the Law) inserted
After Article 7
there is inserted –
7A Payment of parental allowance under Article 22B of the Law
(1) This
Article applies if Article 22B (additional period for which parental allowance is payable – child requiring urgent
medical care) of the Law applies in respect of a child.
(2) If
the determining officer is notified by a hospital that the child required
urgent medical care there, for a relevant period, paragraph (3) applies.
(3) The
determining officer must notify a parent entitled to
payment of the parental allowance, in writing, of the additional number of
weeks for which the parental allowance is payable, calculated in accordance
with Article 22B of the Law.
(4) In
this Article, “relevant period” means the total days of urgent medical care
specified in the tables in Article 22B of the Law required by a
child –
(a) born in or after the
38th week of pregnancy; or
(b) born in or before the
37th week of pregnancy.
4 Article 8
(nomination of period for parental allowance) amended
(1) For
the heading to Article 8 there is substituted “Nomination of parents and
period specified for payment of parental allowance”.
(2) For
Article 8(1) and (2) there is substituted –
(1) If
2 parents are entitled to the payment of the parental allowance in respect of a
child they must –
(a) nominate 1 or both of them to be paid the parental allowance;
(b) specify the period of
weeks for which the parental allowance is to be paid to a nominated parent.
(2) The
period of weeks specified must be made for blocks of no less than 2 consecutive
weeks.
(3) In
Article 8(3) for “32 nominated weeks” there is substituted “32 weeks, unless the
parental allowance is payable for a further number of weeks because Article 22B
of the Law applies in respect of the child”.
(4) In
Article 8(4), in both places it appears, for “nominated” there is
substituted “specified”.
(5) After
Article 8(4) there is inserted –
(4A) But
if Article 22B of the Law applies in respect of the child, an additional
number of specified weeks may be added to the previously specified period of 26
or 32 weeks.
(6) In
Article 8(5), in both places it appears, for “nominated” there is
substituted “specified”.
(7) In
Article 8(6) for “Paragraph (5) does not apply” there is substituted
“Despite the requirement in paragraph (5), the parental allowance is still
payable”.
(8) In
Article 8(7) for “nominated” there is substituted “specified”.
5 Article 10 (disqualification from receipt of
parental allowance) amended
In Article 10(1) for
“Article 22(10)(e)” there is substituted “Article 22D(f)”.
6 Article 14 (transitional provision) deleted
Article 14 is
deleted.
7 Citation and
commencement
This Order may be cited as the Social
Security (Parental Benefit) (Jersey) Amendment Order 2024 and comes into force immediately
after the commencement of the Social Security Law (Parental Allowance and Death
Grant) (Jersey) Amendment Regulations 2024.
Deputy L.V. Feltham of St. Helier Central
Minister for Social Security