{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-maternity-and-funeral-expenses-general-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-3.json",
  "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": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 7 of the Principal Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 7 of the Principal Regulations (entitlement to payment for funeral expenses) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.\n(2) In paragraph (4) omit “or” after sub-paragraph (c) and after sub-paragraph (d) add—\n“; or\n(e) a person ordinarily resident outside the United Kingdom.”.\n(3) For paragraph (7) substitute—\n“(7) Paragraph (6) shall not apply where the close relative who was in closer contact with the deceased than the responsible person or, as the case may be, was in equally close contact with the deceased—\n(a) was under the age of 18 at the date of death and was the only close relative (apart from any other person who was under the age of 18 at that date) to whom either sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of paragraph (6) applies; or\n(b) is a person ordinarily resident outside the United Kingdom.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 7 was, together with regulation 7A, substituted by S.I. 1997/792. It has subsequently been amended by S.I. 1997/2538, 1999/3266, 2001/3023, 2002/2323, 2002/3019 and 2003/455."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2536/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:18:02.374246+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."
}