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

Amount of funeral payment

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

6.  In regulation 9 (amount of funeral payment)—

(a)for paragraph (3)(a)(i) substitute—

(i)the necessary costs of obtaining a new burial plot for the deceased and a right of burial in that plot, whether or not that right is exclusive;

(b)omit paragraphs (3)(b)(ii) and (iii);

(c)after paragraph (3)(b) insert—

(ba)the cost of obtaining any medical reference, report or other documentation required in connection with the disposal of the body of the deceased, whether by burial, cremation or otherwise;; and

(d)in paragraph (8) for “with an exclusive right of burial” substitute “with a right of burial in that plot, whether or not that right is exclusive”.