Paying bereavement support payment to persons who are remanded in custody7
1
Where a person is remanded in custody for an offence, regulation 6(1) does not apply unless a sentence described in paragraph (2) is later imposed on the person for the offence.
2
Subject to paragraph (3), the sentences described for the purposes of paragraph (1) are—
a
a sentence of imprisonment or detention in legal custody as a result of criminal proceedings;
b
a sentence of detention where the provision mentioned in regulation 6(2)(c)(i) applies;
c
a suspended sentence within the meaning in section 18 of the Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 7(suspended sentences of imprisonment).
3
A sentence described in paragraph (2)(a) which is imposed outside Northern Ireland is not a sentence described for the purposes of paragraph (1) if, in similar circumstances in Northern Ireland, a sentence described in paragraph (2)(a) would not have been imposed.