The Social Security (Persons from Abroad) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Amendment of the Social Fund Regulations

6.  In regulation 7 of the Social Fund Regulations (funeral payments: entitlement)—

(a)in paragraph (9)(a) for “or Norway” there shall be substituted “, Norway or Switzerland”; and

(b)for paragraph (10) there shall be substituted—

(10) This paragraph applies where the responsible person or his partner is—

(a)a worker for the purposes of Council Directive No. 2004/38/EC;

(b)a self-employed person for the purposes of that Directive;

(c)a person who retains a status referred to in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) pursuant to Article 7(3) of that Directive;

(d)a person who is a family member of a person referred to in sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c) within the meaning of Article 2 of that Directive; or

(e)a person who has a right to reside permanently in the United Kingdom by virtue of Article 17 of that Directive..