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Regulation 7 Paying bereavement support payment to persons who are remanded in custody

(1)

Where a person is remanded in custody for an offence, regulation 6(1) does not apply unless a sentence described in paragraph (2) is later imposed on the person for the offence.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3), the sentences described for the purposes of paragraph (1) are—

(a)

a sentence of imprisonment or detention in legal custody as a result of criminal proceedings;

(b)

a sentence of detention where the provision mentioned in regulation 6(2)(c)(i) applies;

(c)

a suspended sentence within the meaning in section 18 of the Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 M1(suspended sentences of imprisonment).

(3)

A sentence described in paragraph (2)(a) which is imposed outside Northern Ireland is not a sentence described for the purposes of paragraph (1) if, in similar circumstances in Northern Ireland, a sentence described in paragraph (2)(a) would not have been imposed.

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Marginal citations

M1

1968 c. 29 (N.I.); section 18 was amended by Article 9(1) of the Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1344 (N.I. 15))