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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/528",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-2000",
  "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).\nRegulation 3 imposes a new condition for entitlement to a payment to meet maternity expenses. The new condition is that the claimant or claimant’s partner has received advice on health and welfare matters relating to the child, and where the claim is made before the child is born, the mother has received advice on maternal health.\nThe amount of a maternity payment is to increase to £200.\nRegulation 4 amends regulations 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9 to provide that a payment to meet maternity expenses is to be known as a Sure Start Maternity Grant.\nRegulation 5 makes transitional provisions.\nThese Regulations do not impose any charge on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/528/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:53.824098+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."
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