The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 251

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1991

Made

15th February 1991

Laid before Parliament

15th February 1991

Coming into force

16th February 1991

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 32(2A) and 84(1) of the Social Security Act 1986(1) and section 166(1) to (3A) of the Social Security Act 1975(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to it(3), 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 1991 and shall come into force on 16th February 1991.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988(4).

Amendment of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (prescribed amount) for the figure “£5” there shall be substituted the figure “£6”.

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

Nicholas Scott

Minister of State,

Department of Social Security

15th February 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988 by increasing, with effect from 16th February 1991, the prescribed amount payable in respect of each period of cold weather from £5 to £6.

(1)

1986 c. 50; section 32(2A) was added by section 11 of and paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7); section 84(1) is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning assigned to the word “prescribed”.

(2)

1975 c. 14; section 166(3A) was inserted by section 62(1) of the Social Security Act 1986 and section 166(1) to (3A) is applied by section 83(1) of that Act.

(3)

See section 10(1) of the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30); and section 61(1)(b) of the Social Security Act 1986.

(4)

S.I. 1988/1724, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.