# The Bereavement Support Payment (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019, 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 (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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2019/181/regulation/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/bereavement-support-payment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2019/regulation-7
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