1993 No. 479
The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulations 1993
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Social Security in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 138(1)(a) and (4) and 175(1) to (3) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to it(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulations1993 and shall come into force on 1st April 1993.
2
In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Regulations 1987(3).
Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations2
In regulation 7 of the principal Regulations (entitlement to funeral payment)—
a
for sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following subparagraph—
a
the claimant or the claimant’s partner in respect of the date of the claim for a funeral payment—
i
has been awarded income support, family credit, disability working allowance, housing benefit or council tax benefit where, in the case of council tax benefit, that benefit is awarded by virtue only of the claimant or his partner having fulfilled the conditions of entitlement specified in section 131(3) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (entitlement to the appropriate maximum council tax benefit)(4); or
ii
is a person to whom, by virtue of sub-section (7) of section 131 of that Act, sub-section (6) of that section applies where, on a claim for council tax benefit, the conditions of entitlement specified in section 131(3) and (6) for an award of the alternative maximum council tax benefit are fulfilled; and
b
in paragraph (2)(b) at the end there shall be added the words “and, in the case of cremation, the cost of an ordinary urn”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)