The Loans for Mortgage Interest and Social Fund Maternity Grant (Amendment) Regulations 2018

3.—(1) The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Regulations 2005(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 5A (entitlement where another member of the claimant’s family is under the age of 16), in paragraph (3) after sub-paragraph (c) insert—

“;

(d) any child—

(i) who was not, at the time of the child’s birth, a child of the claimant (or, where the claimant has a partner at the date of claim, the claimant’s partner); and

(ii) whose age, at the time that the claimant (or, where the claimant has a partner at the date of claim, the claimant’s partner) first became responsible for that child, exceeded 12 months.”.

(1)

S.I. 2005/3061, amended by S.I. 2012/1814; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.