Plain language law

New Zealand law explained for everyone

Social Security Act 2018

Other provisions - Regulations

427: Regulations: funeral grants: amounts and methods of payment

You could also call this:

“Rules about funeral money: how much you can get and how you'll receive it”

The Governor-General can make rules about funeral grants. These rules can say how much money you can get for a funeral grant and how you will receive the money.

The rules can tell the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) how to decide how much money to give for a funeral grant. They might say that MSD can choose an amount up to a certain limit to pay for reasonable funeral costs.

The rules about funeral grants are a type of law called secondary legislation. This means they need to follow special steps to be published and made official.

This text is automatically generated. It might be out of date or be missing some parts. Find out more about how we do this.

This page was last updated on

View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM6783997.

Topics:
Money and consumer rights > Banking and loans
Family and relationships > Children and parenting
Previous

426: Regulations: use of disability allowance to fund specified expenses, or

“Rules about how you can spend your disability allowance money”

Next

428: Regulations: temporary additional support, or

“Rules for getting extra money when you're struggling with living costs”

Part 8 Other provisions
Regulations

427Regulations: funeral grants: amounts and methods of payment

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations for the purposes of section 90.

  2. Regulations made under subsection (1) may do all or any of the following:

  3. specify the amount of, or how MSD must assess the amount of, a funeral grant:
    1. specify the method or methods of making payments of funeral grants.

      1. Regulations made under subsection (2)(a) may (without limitation) provide that the grant, for a person who meets the criteria in section 91, 92, or 93, is of an amount, not exceeding a specified maximum amount, that MSD determines is appropriate to meet the deceased person’s reasonable funeral expenses.

      2. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

      Compare
      Notes
      • Section 427(4): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).