{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-bereavement-benefits-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-bereavement-benefits-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/260",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Bereavement Benefits Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-bereavement-benefits-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Housing Benefit Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Benefit Regulations shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) In Schedule 2 (applicable amounts)—\n(a) in paragraph 4 (premiums) for “paragraphs 9 to 14ZA” there shall be substituted “paragraphs 8A to 14ZA”;\n(b) immediately before paragraph 9 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“Bereavement Premium\n8A (1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) and (3), the condition is that the claimant—\n(a) had, as at 9th April 2001, attained the age of 55 but not the age of 60;\n(b) was in receipt of, but is no longer entitled to, a bereavement allowance under section 39B of the Contributions and Benefits Act in respect of the death of a spouse who died on or after 9th April 2001, and\n(c) is claiming housing benefit as a single claimant.\n(2) A premium under sub-paragraph (1) shall, except in a case to which sub-paragraph (4) applies, not be applicable in respect of a claimant who claims housing benefit more than 8 weeks after the last day on which he was entitled to a bereavement allowance.\n(3) Where a claimant to whom a premium under sub-paragraph (1) is applicable, ceases to be entitled to housing benefit or to be a single claimant, a premium under sub-paragraph (1) shall only again be applicable to that claimant where he claims housing benefit as a single claimant no more than 8 weeks after the date on which he ceased to be entitled to housing benefit or, as the case may be, to be a single claimant.\n(4) Where a premium under sub-paragraph (1) becomes applicable to a claimant, it shall again be applicable to that claimant where he claims housing benefit as a single claimant at the end of the benefit period in which it first became applicable and at the end of each subsequent benefit period provided, where he ceases to be a single claimant during the course of any benefit period, he does not cease to be a single claimant for more than 8 weeks.”;\n(c) immediately before sub-paragraph (2) in the table in paragraph 15 (amounts of premiums specified in Part III) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph respectively in each column—\n“\n(1A) Bereavement Premium.\n(1A) £15·30.\n”.\n(3) In Schedule 4 (sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings)—\n(a) after paragraph 14 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—\n“14A Subject to paragraph 35, £15 of any—\n(a) widowed mother’s allowance paid pursuant to section 37 of the Contributions and Benefits Act;\n(b) widowed parent’s allowance paid pursuant to section 39A of the Contributions and Benefits Act.”;\n(b) in paragraph 35 for “paragraphs 15” there shall be substituted “paragraphs 14A, 15”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in operation at 9.4.2001, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 4 was amended by regulation 9(a) of S.R. 1990 No. 345 and regulation 6(b)(i) of S.R. 1997 No. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 35 was amended by regulation 3(3) of S.R. 1990 No. 305, regulation 7(b) of S.R. 1996 No. 93 and regulation 4(3) of S.R. 1998 No. 81"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/260",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Bereavement Benefits Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2006/407",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing Benefit (Consequential Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/260/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:14:44.526941+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."
}