{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/funeral-expense-assistance-scotland-regulations-2019/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/funeral-expense-assistance-scotland-regulations-2019/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Periods for redetermination requests",
  "text": "(1) The period for requesting a re-determination of entitlement to funeral expense assistance, under section 41 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018, is 31 days beginning with the day that the applicant is informed, in accordance with section 40 of that Act, of the right to make the request.\n(2) Where such a request is validly made, the period allowed for re-determination (within the meaning of section 43 of that Act) is 16 working days beginning with—\n(a) the day the request is received by the Scottish Ministers, ...\n(b) where the request is received by the Scottish Ministers later than the period prescribed by paragraph (1), the day on which the Scottish Ministers, or on appeal the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland, decide that the applicant has a good reason for not requesting the re-determination sooner , or\n(c) in a case where the Scottish Ministers have informed the applicant of their decision that the request for a re-determination was not made in such form as the Scottish Ministers require, the day on which it is subsequently decided by the First-Tier Tribunal for Scotland that the applicant in question has made the request in such form as the Scottish Ministers require.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 6(2)(a) omitted (9.2.2022) by virtue of The Social Security (Period for Re-determination Requests) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/469), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 6(2)(c) and word inserted (9.2.2022) by The Social Security (Period for Re-determination Requests) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/469), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 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/6",
    "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."
}