{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-2010/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2591",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-2010",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend regulation 3 of the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988 so that the amount of a cold weather payment will be £25 instead of £8.50.\nThey also correct a minor error in regulation 1A of the 1988 Regulations and revoke spent provisions in—\nthe Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1995 (which set the cold weather payment at £8.50), and\nthe Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 2008 and 2009 (which allowed for cold weather payments of £25 to be made in the 2008-09 and 2009-10 winters respectively).\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the private or voluntary sectors.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2591/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:27:21.658548+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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