{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loans-for-mortgage-interest-regulations-2017/schedule-5/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loans-for-mortgage-interest-regulations-2017/schedule-5/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/725",
  "legislation_title": "The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loans-for-mortgage-interest-regulations-2017",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Regulations 2005 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 3 (interpretation), in paragraph (1)—\n(a) in the appropriate place insert—\n““owner-occupier loan payments” means loan payments made under the Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017;”;\n(b) after paragraph (4) insert—\n“(5) For the purposes of these Regulations, a person being treated as entitled to a benefit has the meaning given to it in regulation 2(2)(aa) of the Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017.”.\n(3) In regulation 5 (entitlement), in paragraph (2)—\n(a) omit “or” between sub-paragraphs (f) and (g);\n(b) after sub-paragraph (g) insert—\n“; or\n(h) owner-occupier loan payments and is treated as entitled to a benefit specified in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) and (f).”.\n(4) In regulation 7 (funeral payments: entitlement), in paragraph (4)(a)—\n(a) omit “or” between sub-paragraphs (viii) and (ix);\n(b) after sub-paragraph (ix) insert—\n“; or\n(x) owner-occupier loan payments and is treated as entitled to a benefit specified in sub-paragraphs (i) to (iii) and (viii).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 paras. 7-10 inserted (5.4.2018) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest and Social Fund Maternity Grant (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/307), regs. 1(3), 2(18)(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/725/schedule/5/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:09:51.368421+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."
}