The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1995

Statutory Instruments

1995 No. 2620

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1995

Made

6th October 1995

Laid before Parliament

11th October 1995

Coming into force

1st November 1995

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 138(2) and (4) and 175(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it(2), 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 1995 and shall come into force on 1st November 1995.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988(3).

Amendment of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (prescribed amount) for the amount “£7” there shall be substituted the amount “£8.50”.

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)

(a) entries 25 (Finningley), 42 (Mount Batten), 52 (Trawsfynydd), 56 (Watnall) and 62 (Wyton) shall be omitted;

(b) for entries 6, 14, 21, 33, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 54 and 55 there shall be respectively substituted the entries in the Schedule to these Regulations;

(c) the new entry 11A (Capel Curig) specified in the Schedule to these Regulations, shall be inserted after entry 11 (Brize Norton);

(d) the new entry 61A (Wittering) specified in the Schedule to these Regulations, shall be inserted after entry 61 (Wilsden)(4).

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

Roger Evans

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of Social Security

6th October 1995

Regulation 3

SCHEDULE

Column (1)	Column (2)
National Climatological Message Station	Identification of Post Code areas or parts thereof
6. BIRMINGHAM AIRPORT	DB1-21, B23-38, B40, B42-50, B60-76, B80, B90-98. CV1-13, CV21-23, CV31-37. DY1-13. WR1-15. WS1-6, WS8-10. WV1-4, WV9-14.
11A. CAPEL CURIG	LL23-27, LL35-49, LL51, LL52. SY20.
14. CILFYNYDD	CF8, CF37-48, CF81-83. LD3 NP2-5, NP7, NP8, NP44. That part of NP1 which consists of sectors: NP1 4, NP1 5, NP1 6, NP1 7, NP1 8.
21. EASTHAMPSTEAD	GU11, GU13, GU14, GU17, GU26, GU30, GU34, GU35. RG1-17, RG20-28, RG30, RG31, RG40-42, RG45.
33. LEEDS WEATHER CENTRE	DE1-7, DE11-15, DE21-24, DE45, DE55, DE56, DE65, DE72-75. That part of HD8 which consists of sectors: HD8 8, HD8 9. HG1-5. LS1-28. S1-14, S17-19, that part of S30 which consists of sectors: S30 3, S30 4, S31, S40-45, S60-66, S70-75. WF1-17. YO1-5, YO8.
45. RHOOSE	BA1-3, BA11. BS1-27. CF1-5, CF7, CF31-36, CF61-64, CF71, CF72. GL9, GL12, GL13. That part of NP1 which consists of sectors: NP1 0, NP1 9, NP6, NP9.
46. ST. MAWGAN	PL1-15, PL17-35. TQ7, TQ8. TR1-11, TR14-16.
47. SHAWBURY	B77-79. DY14. HR1-9. LD1, LD2, LD4-8. LL11-14, LL20, LL21. ST1-14, ST15-21. SY1-13, SY15-19, SY21, SY22. TF1-13. WS7, WS11-15. WV5-8, WV15, WV16.
49. STANSTED	AL6-8. CB10, CB11. CM0-24. CO8, CO9. RM1-20. SG1-14. SS0-9, SS11-17.
50. STORNOWAY	HS1-9.
54. VALLEY	LL28-34, LL53-78.
55. WADDINGTON	DN1-22, DN31-40. HU1-20. LE1-18, LE65, LE67. LN1-13. NG1-25, NG31-34. PE10-12, PE20-25.
61A. WITTERING	CB1-7. LU1-7. MK1-19, MK40-46. NN1-18, NN29. PE1-9, PE15-19. SG15-19.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988 No. 1724) by increasing with effect from 1st November 1995 the prescribed amount payable in respect of each period of cold weather from 7 to 8.50. They amend Schedule 1 to those Regulations making changes to the areas linked to national climatological message stations by way of Post Office postcodes.

A person may establish the current postcode for his address by contacting any Post Office.

These Regulations do not impose a charge on businesses.

(1)

1992 c. 4; section 138(4) is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning assigned to the word “prescribed”.

(2)

See section 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5).

(3)

S.I. 1988/1724; relevant amending instruments S.I. 1991/2238, 1992/2448, 1993/2450 and 1994/2593.

(4)

Entry 61 (Wilsden) was substituted by S.I. 1993/2450.