PART 3Access to benefits and services
Amendment of the Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Regulations 200562.
(1)
The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Regulations 2005 M1 are amended as follows.
(2)
In regulation 7 (funeral payments: entitlement)—
(a)
“(10)
This paragraph applies where the responsible person or the responsible person's partner is—
(a)
a qualified person within the meaning of regulation 6(1)(b) (worker) or (c) (self-employed person) of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 (the EEA Regulations);
(b)
a person who retains the status referred to in sub-paragraph (a) pursuant to regulation 6(2) or (4) of the EEA Regulations;
(c)
a person who is a family member of a person referred to in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) within the meaning of regulation 7(1) of the EEA Regulations; or
(d)
a person who has a right to reside permanently in the United Kingdom by virtue of regulation 15(1)(c), (d) or (e) of the EEA Regulations;
(e)
a person granted indefinite leave to enter, or remain in, the United Kingdom under the Immigration Act 1971 by virtue of Appendix EU to the immigration rules made under section 3(2) of that Act.”;
(b)
“(11)
References in this regulation to the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016 are to be read with Schedule 4 to the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Act 2020 (Consequential, Saving, Transitional and Transitory Provisions) Regulations 2020.”.