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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bereavement-support-payment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2019/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bereavement-support-payment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2019/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2019/181",
  "legislation_title": "The Bereavement Support Payment (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bereavement-support-payment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2019",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Paying bereavement support payment to persons who are remanded in custody",
  "text": "(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.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the sentences described for the purposes of paragraph (1) are—\n(a) a sentence of imprisonment or detention in legal custody as a result of criminal proceedings;\n(b) a sentence of detention where the provision mentioned in regulation 6(2)(c)(i) applies;\n(c) a suspended sentence within the meaning in section 18 of the Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 (suspended sentences of imprisonment).\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "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))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2019/181/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:45:45.022025+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}