The Local Government (Discretionary Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20012.

(1)

The Local Government (Discretionary Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20013 shall be amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2)

In regulation 36 (death benefits) for paragraph (1)(b)(i) there shall be substituted—

“(i)

if the deceased leaves a surviving spouse or spouses, or a surviving civil partner, the surviving spouse or all of them, or the surviving civil partner, as the case may be, shall be entitled to an annual allowance or lump sum; and”.