Explanatory note

These Regulations amend regulation 1A of the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988 so that persons whose applicable amount for the purposes of income support includes a residential allowance, shall not be entitled to a cold weather payment out of the Social Fund. They amend Schedule 1 to those Regulations making changes to the areas linked to national climatological message stations by way of Post Office postcodes and also make additions to Table 1 in Schedule 2 to those Regulations which identifies postcode areas by reference to maps produced by Datamaps Ltd.

A person may establish the current postcode for his address by contacting any post office.

These Regulations do not impose a charge on businesses.