{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2538",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 3 of the General Regulations",
  "text": "For the definition of “absent parent” in regulation 3(1) of the General Regulations (interpretation), there shall be substituted the following definition—\n““absent parent” means a parent of a child who has died where—\n(a) that parent was not living in the same household with the child at the date of that child’s death; and\n(b) that child had his home, at the date of death, with a person who was responsible for that child for the purposes of Part IX of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The definition of “absent parent” was inserted by S.I. 1997/792."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2538/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:47:05.852058+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."
}