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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-2004/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2536",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-2004",
  "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) in so far as those Regulations relate to claims for payment of funeral expenses.\nRegulation 3 amends regulation 7 so as to limit the scope of tests which operate so as to restrict eligibility for payments.\nIn general, where there is no surviving partner of the deceased and the deceased is not a child, there are two stages in determining whether the applicant is entitled to a funeral payment—\n(i) under the “immediate family member test” no help is given if there is a parent, son or daughter and neither they nor their partner has been awarded one of the qualifying benefits;\n(ii) under the “nature and extent of contact test” no help is given if a close relative had closer contact with the deceased than the person making the claim: where this is not the case but a close relative had equally close contact with the deceased and neither they nor their partner had been awarded a qualifying benefit, no help will be given.\nRegulation 3 makes provision for these tests to be disapplied in respect of family members ordinarily resident outside the United Kingdom.\nRegulation 4 amends regulation 7A so as to provide for the payment of fees levied by private contractors in respect of a burial.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of 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/2004/2536/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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