Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 1st November 2001.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
(3) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988(2).
Substitution of the Schedule to the principal Regulations
2. For the Schedule to the principal Regulations (Post Office postcode areas assigned to designated National Climatological Message Stations) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 19th October 2001.
L.S.
Bryan Davis
Senior Officer of the
Department for Social Development