Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations

6.  In regulation 7 of the principal Regulations(1) (deductions from an award of a funeral payment)—

(a) in paragraph (a) after “administration” there shall be inserted “or in Scotland, confirmation,”, and

(b) after paragraph (d) there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(e) the amount of any sum payable under a pre-paid funeral plan in order to meet the deceased’s funeral expenses where the plan had not been paid for in full prior to the death of the deceased.”.

(1)

Regulation 7(a) was amended by S.R. 1994 No. 68