The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1992

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force—

(a) for the purposes of regulation 6, on 31st October 1992;

(b) for all other purposes, on 1st November 1992.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988(1).

Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations

2.  In paragraph (2) of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations (citation, commencement and interpretation)—

(a) at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “Schedule 2 to these Regulations (meaning of references to Post Office postcode areas and sectors) shall have effect and”;

(b) the definition of “Post Office postcode area” shall be omitted and in its place there shall be inserted—

• ““postcode”, except in the definition below of “sector”, includes a part of a postcode;”

Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

3.—(1) In paragraph (1)(b) of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (prescribed circumstances for cold weather payments) after the words “Post Office postcode area” there shall be inserted the words “or part of such an area”.

(2) In paragraph (2) of the said regulation 2—

(a) after the words “Post Office postcode areas”, in sub-paragraph (a), there shall be inserted the words “or parts thereof”, and

(b) after the words “Post Office postcode area”, in both places where they occur in sub-paragraph (b), there shall be inserted the words “or part of such an area”.

(3) In paragraphs (1) and (2) of the said regulation 2 for the word “described”, wherever it occurs, there shall be substituted the word “identified”.

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

4.  In Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (Post Office postcode areas assigned to designated National Climatological Message Stations)—

(a) for the heading of column (2) of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the heading

• “Identification of Post Office postcode areas or parts thereof”;

(b) 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

5.  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.

Revocation

6.  The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1992(2) are revoked.

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

Nicholas Scott

Minister of State,

Department of Social Security

14th October 1992