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3.—(1) A claimant is entitled to a Children’s Funeral Fund payment in relation to a funeral, where—
(a)the deceased was—
(i)of qualifying age at the time of death; or
(ii)a stillborn child as defined in section 41 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953(1), born after the 24th week of pregnancy;
(b)the funeral takes place in England on or after 23rd July 2019; and
(c)were it not for these Regulations, those fees or expenses would be chargeable to a person involved in the organisation of the funeral.
(2) Section 1(1A) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992(2) (the requirement to provide evidence of a national insurance number in order to make a claim) is disapplied in relation to a claim for a Children’s Funeral Fund payment.
(3) Subject to regulation 6, a claimant may be awarded more than one Children’s Funeral Fund payment in relation to a funeral.
(4) In this regulation, a “Children’s Funeral Fund payment” means a payment out of the social fund(3) in the amount of any fees charged by a burial or cremation authority or of any associated expenses.
1953 c. 20. There are no relevant amendments to this provision.
Section 1(1A) was inserted by section 19 of the Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997 (c. 47).
The social fund is defined in section 167 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5).
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