Statutory Instrument 1994 No. 2593
The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1994
(The document as of February, 2008)
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1994 No. 2593
SOCIAL SECURITY
The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1994
| Laid before Parliament | 11th October 1994 |
| Coming into force | 1st November 1994 |
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 1994 and shall come into force on 1st November 1994.
(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 "£6" there shall be substituted the amount "£7".
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)[4]— (a) entries 5 (Bedford Royal Aircraft Establishment) and 30 (Honington) shall be omitted;
(b) for entries 4, 12, 39, 48, 57 and 62 there shall be respectively substituted the entries in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.
(c) the new entry 9A (Braemar) specified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations, shall be inserted after entry 9 (Bournemouth Airport).
Amendment of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations
4. In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (definition of Post Office postcode areas and sectors) in Table 1 there shall be added at the end the entries in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
James Arbuthnot
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security
6th October 1994
Notes:[1] 1992 c. 4; section 138(4) is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning assigned to the word "prescribed".
[2] See section 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5).
[3] S.I. 1988/1724; relevant amending instruments S.I. 1991/2238, 1992/2448 and 1993/2450.
[4] The entries in Table 1 of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations are in respect of Post Office postcode areas which do not appear in the Postcode Atlas of Great Britain and Northern Ireland but are shown on maps published by Datamaps Ltd of Unit 1, 13 Wembley Conference Centre, East Lane, Wembley, Middlesex HA9 7XX from whom copies may be obtained.
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