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(1) The Local Government (Discretionary Payments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 shall be amended in accordance with paragraph (2).
(2) In regulation 36 (death benefits) for paragraph (1)(b)(i) there shall be substituted—“
(i) if the deceased leaves a surviving spouse or spouses, or a surviving civil partner, the surviving spouse or all of them, or the surviving civil partner, as the case may be, shall be entitled to an annual allowance or lump sum; and”.
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Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 13th January 2006
J Ritchie
A senior officer of the
Department of the Environment
