{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/379",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 7 of the General Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 7 of the General Regulations (entitlement to payments for funeral expenses)\n(a) in paragraph (1)(a) for the words “either income support, family credit or housing benefit” there shall be substituted the words “income support, family credit, housing benefit or community charge benefits”;\n(b) after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph–\n“(3) In this regulation, any reference to housing benefit includes a reference, in Scotland, to housing benefit in the form of a community charge rebate.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See section 20(1) of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50); reference to community charge benefits was inserted by section 135 of, and Schedule 10 to, the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 28 of the Social Security Act 1986; reference to community charge rebate was inserted by S.I. 1988/1483."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/379/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:48:12.488803+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."
}