The Social Fund Funeral Expenses (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

Responsible person: residence in care home

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

5.—(1) In regulation 8(2) (funeral payments: supplementary)(1) after sub-paragraph (f) insert—

(ff)a person resident in a care establishment within the meaning of regulation 2(3), whose accommodation and care costs are met in whole or in part by a Health and Social Care trust;.

(2) In this regulation “Health and Social Care trust” means a body as established under Article 10 of the Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991(2).

(1)

Regulation 8(2) was amended by regulation 6 of S.R. 2006 No. 97 and regulation 33(5) of S.R. 2016 No. 236

(2)

S.I. 1991/194 (N.I.1); Article 10 was amended by section 1 of the Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 1 (N.I.))