Regulation 33 Circumstances in which a deceased person who was not entitled to child benefit is to be treated as having been so entitled for the purposes of sections 70 or 73
A deceased person shall be treated, for the purposes of sections 70 or 73 as having been entitled to child benefit in respect of a child at his death, or as the case may be, throughout the period between the date of the relevant accident and his death, if—
that child was a legitimate son or daughter of the deceased and either the deceased or his spouse was living with the child or was contributing towards the cost of providing for the child at the appropriate rate or the deceased would, but for the relevant injury or disease, have so contributed; or
the child was an illegitimate son or daughter of the deceased and the deceased was either living with the child or was contributing towards the cost of providing for the child at the appropriate rate or would but for the relevant injury or disease have so contributed; or
the child, not being a son or daughter of the deceased, was wholly or mainly maintained by the deceased or would, but for the relevant injury or disease, have been so maintained; or
the child, not being a son or daughter of the deceased, was living at the time of the deceased's death with the deceased's spouse or was being maintained by that spouse at the appropriate rate and he or she was a child who at the time of the death of a person to whom the deceased's spouse had previously been married (and whose marriage to the deceased's spouse had been terminated by death) had been living with or maintained at the appropriate rate by that person; or
the child was a posthumous legitimate child of the deceased.
The expression `appropriate rate' in paragraph (1) means a weekly rate not less than the rate which would have been payable as child benefit in respect of an only, elder or eldest child.