PART 3Social Fund Maternity Grant Amendments
Amendment of the Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005
3. In regulation 5A(3)(1) of the Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 (entitlement where another member of the claimant’s family is under the age of 16), after sub-paragraph (c) insert—
“(d)any child—
(i)who was not, at the time of the child’s birth, a child of the claimant (or, where the claimant has a partner at the date of claim, the claimant’s partner), and
(ii)whose age, at the time that the claimant (or, where the claimant has a partner at the date of claim, the claimant’s partner) first became responsible for that child, exceeded 12 months.”.
(1)
Regulation 5A was inserted by regulation 2(4) of S.R. 2011 No. 130 and amended by regulation 2 of S.R. 2012 No. 292.