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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018-funeral-expense-assistance-and-early-years-assistance-consequential-modifications-and-savings-order-2019/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018-funeral-expense-assistance-and-early-years-assistance-consequential-modifications-and-savings-order-2019/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/1060",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Funeral Expense Assistance and Early Years Assistance) (Consequential Modifications and Savings) Order 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018-funeral-expense-assistance-and-early-years-assistance-consequential-modifications-and-savings-order-2019",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "text": "(1) The Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 27(1)(h) (meaning of “income”), after paragraph (xvc) insert—\n“(xvd) funeral expense assistance given in accordance with section 34 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.”.\n(3) In Part 1 of Schedule 7 (capital to be disregarded generally), after paragraph 21(2)(o) insert—\n“(p) funeral expense assistance given in accordance with section 34 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2006 No. 406; relevant amending instruments are S.R. 2018 No. 192 and S.R. 2019 No. 23."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1060/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:39:20.055733+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."
}