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Commencement for entitlement to bereavement payment and bereavement support payment

3.—(1) This Order shall not come into operation in accordance with Article 1(2) for a person to whom this Article applies.

(2) This Article applies to a person—

(a)whose spouse or civil partner died in the 12 months before 6th April 2017;

(b)who would have been entitled to a bereavement payment under section 36 of the Contributions and Benefits Act (bereavement payment) if the person had made a claim for it;

(c)who formed a new marriage or civil partnership; and

(d)whose new spouse or civil partner dies—

(i)on or after 6th April 2017, and

(ii)within 12 months of the death referred to in sub-paragraph (a).

(3) This Order shall come into operation for a person to whom this Article applies—

(a)at the end of the period of 12 months starting on the day on which the death referred to in paragraph (2)(a) occurred, for the purposes of entitlement to a bereavement payment for the death referred to in paragraph (2)(a); and

(b)on 6th April 2017, for the purposes of entitlement to bereavement support payment for the death referred to in paragraph (2)(d).