Statutory Instrument 1995 No. 2620

The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1995

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1995  No. 2620

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1995

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 138(2) and (4) and 175(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992^[1] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it^[2], hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation
    1.—(1)  These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st November 1995.

    (2)  In these Regulations "the principal Regulations" means the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988^[3].

Amendment of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations
    2.    In regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (prescribed amount) for the amount "£7" there shall be substituted the amount "£8.50".

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations
    3.    In Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (Post Office postcode areas assigned to designated National Climatological Message Stations)
 (a) entries 25 (Finningley), 42 (Mount Batten), 52 (Trawsfynydd), 56 (Watnall) and 62 (Wyton) shall be omitted;
 (b) for entries 6, 14, 21, 33, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 54 and 55 there shall be respectively substituted the entries in the Schedule to these Regulations;
 (c) the new entry 11A (Capel Curig) specified in the Schedule to these Regulations, shall be inserted after entry 11 (Brize Norton);
 (d) the new entry 61A (Wittering) specified in the Schedule to these Regulations, shall be inserted after entry 61 (Wilsden)^[4].

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Roger Evans

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security

6th October 1995

[1] 1992 c. 4; section 138(4) is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning assigned to the word "prescribed". back

[2] See section 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5). back

[3] S.I. 1988/1724; relevant amending instruments S.I. 1991/2238, 1992/2448, 1993/2450 and 1994/2593. back

[4] Entry 61 (Wilsden) was substituted by S.I. 1993/2450. back

Explanatory Note