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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3266",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/481).\nIn particular, regulation 2(3) provides that the presence of 16 and 17 year old immediate family members or close relatives shall not disentitle a responsible person from a funeral payment, regulation 2(4) prescribes what are to be regarded as the necessary costs of a burial or cremation for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of a funeral payment and regulation 2(2) makes a technical amendment to those Regulations.\nRegulation 3 makes a saving provision.\nThese Regulations do not impose any charge on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3266/note",
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  "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."
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