{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-1988/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/36",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 7(1) of the principal Regulations (entitlement to payments for funeral expenses)—\n(a) for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—\n“(a) the claimant or the claimant’s partner has, in respect of the date of the claim for a funeral payment, been awarded either income support, family credit or housing benefit; and”\n(b) in sub-paragraph (d) for the words from “in regulation 7” to the end of that sub-paragraph there shall be substituted “in regulation 19 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1987.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/36/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:13:24.093837+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."
}