The Bereavement Support Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

Made: 27th March 2018

Coming into operation: 4th April 2018

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Citation and commencement

1

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Period for which bereavement support payment is payable

2

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Rate of bereavement support payment

3

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Persons entitled to the higher rate of bereavement support payment

4

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Persons entitled to the standard rate of bereavement support payment

5

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Prisoners who are not to be paid bereavement support payment

6

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Paying bereavement support payment to persons who are remanded in custody

7

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Territory in which a person may be entitled to bereavement support payment

8

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Revocation

9

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Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 27th March 2018

Anne McCleary — A senior officer of the — Department for Communities

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2015 c.5 (N.I.). See section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c.5 (N.I.))

[^f00002]: 1992 c. 7; section 137 was amended by section 2 of the Child Benefit Act 2005 (c.6)

[^f00003]: Section 138(2) was substituted by section 2(2) of the Child Benefit Act 2005

[^f00004]: See section 31(2) of the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015

[^f00005]: S.I. 1986/595 (NI 4)

[^f00006]: 1968 c. 29 (N.I.); section 18 was amended by Article 9(1) of the Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1344 (N.I. 15))

[^f00007]: Section 155 was amended by section 30 and paragraph 31 to Schedule 16 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015

[^f00008]: S.R. 2017 No. 203

Editorial notes

[^key-e76a8b13d09dc74eb560269b30e7731d]: Regulations revoked (3.10.2018) by The Bereavement Support Payment (No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/166), regs. 1, 9

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