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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-regulations-2010/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2442",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-regulations-2010",
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  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988 (SI 1988/1724) (“the 1988 Regulations”).\nRegulation 2(2) updates some definitions and adds definitions of “cold weather payment” and “winter period” to regulation 1(2) of the 1988 Regulations.\nRegulation 2(3) substitutes a new regulation 1A of the 1988 Regulations in order to simplify the description of persons who are eligible for a cold weather payment, to remove an unnecessary reference to state pension credit and to update some legislative references.\nRegulation 2(4) makes some consequential amendments to regulation 2 of the 1988 Regulations and adds a new paragraph (6) to make clear that a payment may not be made more than 26 weeks from and including the last day of the winter period in which the relevant period of cold weather falls. It makes amendments to regulation 2(5) consequential on the amendments to regulation 1A.\nSchedule 1 to the 1988 Regulations specifies primary weather stations which are relevant to determining whether there is a recorded, or forecasted, period of cold weather. Schedule 2 to the 1988 Regulations specifies alternative stations used to determine this information where the primary station is unable to do so. (Where there is no specified alternative station for the relevant primary station, the nearest primary station able to provide this information is used.)\nRegulation 2(5) replaces Schedule 1 to the 1988 Regulations with Schedule 1 to these Regulations. The new Schedule largely re-enacts the list contained in the former Schedule 1, but it assigns some postcodes from existing stations to seven new weather stations: Dunstaffnage, Keele, Mona, Rothamsted, Tredegar, Hawarden Airport and Capel Curig and transfers some postcodes to different weather stations.\nRegulation 2(6) replaces Schedule 2 to the 1988 Regulations with Schedule 2 to these Regulations. The new Schedule adds ten Meteorological Office Stations in column (1) and omits Shawbury. Related changes are made to column (2).\nThe Postcode Atlas of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the postcode maps may be obtained from their publishers. A person may establish the current postcode for his or her address by contacting the Royal Mail Postcode Enquiries Office (telephone 0906 302 1222 – Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. – or 08457 111 222) or through the Royal Mail website at www.royalmail.com.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the private or voluntary sectors.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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