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 provisions mentioned in regulation 6(2)(c)(i) or (d) apply;

(c)

a suspended sentence within the meaning in section 189 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 F1or section 286 of the Sentencing Code (suspended sentences of imprisonment)^f1.

(3)

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

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 7(2)(c) inserted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 para. 437 (with Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2

Footnotes

f1: 2003 c.44. Section 189 was amended by section 68 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c.10) and S.I. 2005/643.