{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-no2-regulations-1991/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-no2-regulations-1991/regulation-2.json",
  "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": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 1 of the Cold Weather Payments Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 1(2) of the Cold Weather Payments Regulations (citation, commencement and interpretation)—\n(a) for the definition of “claimant” there shall be substituted the following definition—\n““claimant” means a person who is claiming or has claimed income support;”;\n(b) after the definition of “family” there shall be inserted the following definitions—\n““forecast” means a weather forecast produced by the Meteorological Office of the Ministry of Defence and supplied to the Department of Social Security on a daily basis which provides the expected average mean daily temperature for a period of 7 consecutive days;\n“forecasted period of cold weather” means a period of 7 consecutive days, during which the average of the mean daily temperature for that period is forecasted to be equal to or below 0 degrees celsius; and for the purposes of this definition where a day forms part of a forecasted period of cold weather it shall not form part of any other such forecasted period;”;\n(c) after the definition of “mean daily temperature” there shall be inserted the following definition—\n““overlap period” means any period of a day or days, where a day forms part of a recorded period of cold weather and also forms part of a forecasted period of cold weather;”;\n(d) the definition of “period of cold weather” shall be omitted;\n(e) after the definition of “polygamous marriage” there shall be inserted the following definitions—\n““Post Office postcode area” has the meaning given to it in Schedule 2 to these Regulations;\n“recorded period of cold weather” means a period of 7 consecutive days, during which the average of the mean daily temperature recorded for that period was equal to or below 0 degrees celsius; and for the purposes of this definition where a day forms part of a recorded period of cold weather it shall not form part of any other such recorded period;\n“sector” means the area identified by the number which commences the second part of a Post Office postcode;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 1(2) was amended by S.I.1988/1908 and 1990/580."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2238/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:37:07.160480+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."
}