These Regulations relate to the treatment under Part 12ZE of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (“the Act”) of persons abroad, persons who work as mariners and persons who work on the continental shelf. The effect is that certain persons who would otherwise not fulfil the qualifying conditions for entitlement to statutory neonatal care pay because of the nature of their employment or the fact that they are outside the United Kingdom will have an entitlement to such pay.