E5.—(1) This Regulation shall apply to any allowance under Part D (“a child’s allowance”).
(2) Where a child is entitled to a child’s allowance, the police authority may, subject to Regulation E6, commute it for a gratuity:
Provided that a police authority shall not exercise their discretion under this paragraph unless—
the child’s surviving parent or guardian consents or, where he has no such parent or guardian, the child himself consents, and
they are satisfied that there are sufficient reasons for so doing.
(3) Where the police authority are precluded by reason of the provisions of Regulation E6 from exercising their discretion under the preceding paragraph but otherwise would exercise it, they may, subject to those provisions, exercise that discretion in relation to part only of the allowance.
(4) A gratuity under this Regulation shall be calculated in accordance with Part III of Schedule E.
(5) Where a child is entitled to more than one child’s allowance in respect of the death of the same person but, in pursuance of Regulation E7, is not entitled to receive, in respect of any particular period, payment on account of more than one of the allowances, those child’s allowances shall be treated for the purposes of this Regulation and of Part III of Schedule E as a single child’s allowance.
(6) Paragraph (5) has effect subject to paragraph 6 of Part III of Schedule J.