The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010
These Regulations amend the Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 to add to those eligible for a Sure Start Maternity Grant: people awarded residence orders; (adoption orders and parental orders are already included in the legislation); orders freeing a child for adoption to prospective adopters with whom a child is placed; those adopting under certain orders granted outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man; guardians, and a parent (not the mother) who has responsibility for the child concerned where the parents are not partners when a Sure Start Maternity Grant is claimed.