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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-no2-regulations-1991/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2238",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment No.2 Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-no2-regulations-1991",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988 in the following respects—\n(a) they amend the definition of period of cold weather to include a period where the weather forecast is for the temperature to fall to 0 ° celsius or below for the next seven days (regulations 2 and 3);\n(b) they remove the calculation of capital limits for the purposes of cold weather payments (regulation 5).\n(c) they insert 2 new Schedules in the Regulations identifying areas linked to national climatological message stations by way of Post Office postcodes (regulation 6 and Schedules 1 and 2).\nThe Postcode Atlas of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the postcode maps may be obtained from their publishers.\nA person may establish the postcode for their address by contacting any post office.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2238/note",
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  "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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