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.”.