Statutory Instrument 1992 No. 2322

The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1992

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1992 No. 2322

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1992

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

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

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations
    2.    In Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (Post Office postcode areas assigned to designated National Climatological Message Stations)^[4] for entries 8, 11, 22, 23, 25, 33, 34, 53, 56, 58, and 61, there shall be respectively substituted the entries in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

Amendment of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations
    3.    For Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (definition of Post Office postcode area) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

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

Nicholas Scott

Minister of State, Department of Social Security

29th September 1992

[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 sections 172(1) and 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5). back

[3] S.I. 1988/1724; relevant amending instrument S.I. 1991/2238. back

[4] Postcode areas are described in the Postcode Atlas of Great Britain and Northern Ireland published by John Bartholomew & Son Ltd, Duncan Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TA, Scotland ISBN No. 070280 9187. back

Explanatory Note