{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/funeral-expense-assistance-scotland-regulations-2019/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/funeral-expense-assistance-scotland-regulations-2019/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2019/292",
  "legislation_title": "The Funeral Expense Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/funeral-expense-assistance-scotland-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“applicant” means a person who has applied for funeral expense assistance,\n“backdated award” means an award of assistance for a day, or a period that begins on a day, that falls before the day the decision to make the award was taken,\n“burial” does not include—\n(a)burial of ashes, where a person’s remains have been cremated,\n(b)burial of powder,\n“determination” means a determination of an individual's entitlement under section 37 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018,\n...\n“funeral” means a burial, cremation or ...hydrolysis of a deceased person or still-born child,\n“hydrolysis” has the meaning given by section 107 of the Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016,\n“partner” means—\n(i)where a person is living together with a spouse or civil partner, that other person,\n(ii)where a person is living together with a person as a married couple, that other person,\n“powder” has the meaning given by section 107 of the Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016,\n“still-born child” has the meaning given by section 56(1) of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 ,\n“working day” means a day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a bank holiday in Scotland under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (2.12.2024) by The Funeral Expense Assistance (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/363), regs. 1, 2(2)(a) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (2.3.2026) by virtue of The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/50), regs. 1(2), 13(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (2.12.2024) by The Funeral Expense Assistance (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/363), regs. 1, 2(2)(c) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (2.3.2026) by virtue of The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/50), regs. 1(2), 13(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (2.3.2026) by The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/50), regs. 1(2), 13(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (2.3.2026) by The Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/50), regs. 1(2), 13(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1965 c.49, which is amended by section 1(2) of the Still-Birth (Definition) Act 1992 (c.29)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1971 c.80. Schedule 1, paragraph 2 sets out the Scottish bank holidays; it is amended by the St Andrew's Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 2), section 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 16.9.2019, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2019/292/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:06:03.340752+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."
}