Amendment of regulation 8 of the General Regulations

6.  In regulation 8 of the General Regulations(1) (deductions from an award of a funeral payment)—

(a) in paragraph (a), after the word “administration” there shall be inserted the words “or in Scotland, confirmation,”;

(b) after paragraph (d), there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(e) the amount of any sum payable under a pre-paid funeral plan in order to meet the deceased’s funeral expenses where the plan had not been paid for in full prior to the death of the deceased”.

(1)

Regulation 8(a) was amended by S.I. 1994/506.