Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2013
|
Discontinuance of payment of bereavement grant | ||
|
| ||
8. (1) Section 134 of the Principal Act is amended by substituting the following subsection for subsection (1) (amended by sections 17 and 26 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2010 ): | ||
“(1) Subject to this Act, a bereavement grant shall be payable to the person or persons that may be prescribed— | ||
(a) on the death, before 1 January 2014, of— | ||
(i) a pensioner, | ||
(ii) a qualified adult, | ||
(iii) a spouse, civil partner or cohabitant of a pensioner, | ||
(iv) a qualified child in respect of whom an increase of pension specified in paragraphs (a) to (f) in the definition of ‘pensioner’ in subsection (3) was being paid at the time of death, | ||
(v) an orphan, or | ||
(vi) a person to whom a guardian’s payment (contributory) is payable under section 133, | ||
or | ||
(b) where the contribution conditions in section 135 are satisfied, on the death, before 1 January 2014, of— | ||
(i) an insured person, | ||
(ii) the spouse, civil partner or cohabitant of an insured person, | ||
(iii) the widow, widower or surviving civil partner of a deceased insured person, or | ||
(iv) a qualified child other than a qualified child referred to in paragraph (a)(iv).”. | ||
(2) This section comes into operation on 1 January 2014. |