{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-childrens-funeral-fund-for-england-regulations-2019/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-childrens-funeral-fund-for-england-regulations-2019/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/1064",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund (Children’s Funeral Fund for England) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-childrens-funeral-fund-for-england-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Entitlement",
  "text": "(1) A claimant is entitled to a Children’s Funeral Fund payment in relation to a funeral, where—\n(a) the deceased was—\n(i) of qualifying age at the time of death; or\n(ii) a stillborn child as defined in section 41 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, born after the 24th week of pregnancy;\n(b) the funeral takes place in England on or after 23rd July 2019; and\n(c) were it not for these Regulations, those fees or expenses would be chargeable to a person involved in the organisation of the funeral.\n(2) Section 1(1A) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (the requirement to provide evidence of a national insurance number in order to make a claim) is disapplied in relation to a claim for a Children’s Funeral Fund payment.\n(3) Subject to regulation 6, a claimant may be awarded more than one Children’s Funeral Fund payment in relation to a funeral.\n(4) In this regulation, a “Children’s Funeral Fund payment” means a payment out of the social fund in the amount of any fees charged by a burial or cremation authority or of any associated expenses.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1953 c. 20. There are no relevant amendments to this provision."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 1(1A) was inserted by section 19 of the Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997 (c. 47)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The social fund is defined in section 167 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1064/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:39:18.416393+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."
}