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(1).
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)(2)—
(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