# The Pensions Act 2014 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order 2017, Article 15: Amendment of the Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999

Extent: E+W+S

(1) The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 1(3) (interpretation)—
(a) omit the definitions of “bereavement allowance” and “bereavement payment”; and
(b) in the definition of “bereavement benefit”, for paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute—
“(a) bereavement support payment under section 30 of the Pensions Act 2014; or”.
(3) In regulation 3 (revision of decisions)—
(a) in paragraph (5ZB), after sub-paragraph (a) insert—
“(aa) bereavement support payment under section 30 of the Pensions Act 2014;”; and
(b) in paragraph (8G)—
(i) in column 1 of the table, for “Bereavement allowance” substitute “Bereavement support payment under section 30 of the Pensions Act 2014”;
(ii) in column 2 of the table, for the corresponding entry to “Bereavement support payment under section 30 of the Pensions Act 2014” (as inserted by paragraph (i)) substitute “the contribution conditions set out in section 31 of the Pensions Act 2014 (bereavement support payment: contribution condition and amendments)”; and
(iii) omit the row with “Bereavement payment” in column 1.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/422/article/15 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-act-2014-consequential-supplementary-and-incidental-amendments-order-2017/article-15
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