Amendment of the Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Regulations 20058

1

The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Regulations 200541 are amended as follows.

2

In regulation 7 (funeral payments: entitlement)—

a

in paragraph (9)(a) for “or Norway” substitute “, Norway or Switzerland”;

b

for paragraph (10) substitute—

10

This paragraph applies where the responsible person or his partner is—

a

a worker for the purposes of Council Directive No.2004/38/EC42;

b

a self-employed person for the purposes of that Directive;

c

a person who retains a status referred to in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) pursuant to Article 7(3) of that Directive;

d

a person who is a family member of a person referred to in sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c) within the meaning of Article 2 of that Directive; or

e

a person who has a right to reside permanently in the United Kingdom by virtue of Article 17 of that Directive.