Amendment of regulation 4 of the General Regulations

4.  In regulation 4 of the General Regulations(1) (provision against double payment)—

(a)in paragraph (3)—

(i)at the beginning, there shall be inserted the words “Except in a case to which paragraph (4) applies,”;

(ii)for the word “other” there shall be substituted the word “further”;

(b)after paragraph (3) there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(4) Notwithstanding paragraph (3), a further funeral payment may be made under these Regulations in respect of any funeral expenses arising from the death of a person in respect of which such a payment has already been made where—

(a)the decision pursuant to which the funeral payment was awarded has been reviewed; and

(b)the amount of the award as revised on that review, together with the amount of the funeral payment already paid in respect of the death of that person, does not exceed the amount of any funeral payment which may be awarded pursuant to regulation 7A(2).”.