The Funeral Expense Assistance (Scotland) Regulations 2019

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“applicant” means a person who has applied for funeral expense assistance,

“backdated award” means an award of assistance for a day, or a period that begins on a day, that falls before the day the decision to make the award was taken,

“burial” does not include burial of ashes, where a person’s remains have been cremated,

“determination” means a determination of an individual’s entitlement under section 37 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018,

“funeral” means a burial or a cremation of a deceased person or of a still-born child,

“partner” means—

(i)

where a person is living together with a spouse or civil partner, that other person,

(ii)

where a person is living together with a person as a married couple, that other person,

“still-born child” has the meaning given by section 56(1) of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965(1),

“working day” means a day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a bank holiday in Scotland under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(2).

(1)

1965 c.49, which is amended by section 1(2) of the Still-Birth (Definition) Act 1992 (c.29).

(2)

1971 c.80. Schedule 1, paragraph 2 sets out the Scottish bank holidays; it is amended by the St Andrew’s Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 2), section 1.