# The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1994 S.I. 1994/2593 · made 6 October 1994 These Regulations amend the Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) Regulations 1988 No. 1724 by increasing with effect from 1st November 1994 the prescribed amount payable in respect of each period of cold weather from £6 to £7. 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 of Schedule 2 to those Regulations which identifies postcode areas by reference to maps produced by Datamaps Ltd. Made under: Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (Section 138, Section 175) ## Introductory text SOCIAL SECURITY Made 6th October 1994 Laid before Parliament 11th October 1994 Coming into force 1st November 1994 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 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, hereby makes the following Regulations: ## 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 1st November 1994. (2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988. ## 2 Amendment of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations In regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (prescribed amount) for the amount “£6” there shall be substituted the amount “£7”. ## 3 Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations In Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (Post Office postcode areas assigned to designated National Climatological Message Stations)— (a) entries 5 (Bedford Royal Aircraft Establishment) and 30 (Honington) shall be omitted; (b) for entries 4, 12, 39, 48, 57 and 62 there shall be respectively substituted the entries in Schedule 1 to these Regulations. (c) the new entry 9A (Braemar) specified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations, shall be inserted after entry 9 (Bournemouth Airport). ## 4 Amendment of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (definition of Post Office postcode areas and sectors) in Table 1 there shall be added at the end the entries in Schedule 2 to these Regulations. ## Signature Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security. James Arbuthnot Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Social Security 6th October 1994 ## Schedule 1 Column (1) Column (2) National Climatological Message Station Identification of Post Office postcode areas or parts thereof 4. AVIEMORE AB31, AB33, AB34, AB36, AB37. IV4, IV6, IV13. PH 18-26. 9A. BRAEMAR AB35. 12. CARLISLE CA1-11, CA15-17. DG16. LA6-10, LA22, LA23. 39. MANCHESTER BB1-3, BB5-7. BL0-9. CH1-4. CW1-12. That part of LA2 which consists of sectors; LA2 7, LA2 8. M1-35, M38, M40, M41, M43-46. OL1, OL2, OL4-12, OL16. SK1-11, SK15, SK16. SY14. WA1-8, WA13-16. WN1-8. 48. SOUTHAMPTON WEATHER CENTRE GU32, GU33. PO1-22, PO30-41. SO1-5, SO14-19, SO21-24, SO30-32. SO40-43, SO45, SO50-53. 57. WATTISHAM CB8, CB9. CO1-7, CO10-16. IP1-17, IP19-23, IP27-33. 62. WYTON CB1-7. LU1-7. MK1-19, MK40-46. NN1-18, NN29. PE1-8, PE15-19. SG15-19. ## Schedule 2 (1) (2) (3) (4) Postcodes Map No. Map area Year of publication M38, M40, M41, M43-46. G14 Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire 1994 SO14-19, SO30-32, SO40, SO45, SO50, SO53. G3 Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 1994 ## Explanatory note (This note is not part of the Regulations) These Regulations amend the Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) Regulations 1988 No. 1724 by increasing with effect from 1st November 1994 the prescribed amount payable in respect of each period of cold weather from £6 to £7. 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 of 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 upon businesses. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2593 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-regulations-1994 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.