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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2311",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations (interpretation), at the end of the definition of “postcode district”, there shall be added the words “except in the case of any postcode district which is identified with an alpha suffix which shall, for the purposes of these Regulations, be treated as if it forms part of a postcode district which is identified without that suffix”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The definition of “postcode district” was inserted by S.I. 1996/2544."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2311/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:51:13.135269+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."
}