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Regulation 4 Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations (prescribed circumstances) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2)

In sub-paragraph (a)—

(a)

in head (i), the words from “or, if that station” to “for that period” shall be omitted;

(b)

in head (ii) for “and” there shall be substituted “or”, and

(c)

after head (ii) there shall be inserted the following head—

“(iii)

if a station referred to in (i) or (ii) (“the primary station”) is unable to provide temperature information for the period in question, there is, as the case may be, a recorded period of cold weather or a forecasted period of cold weather at the nearest such station to the primary station able to provide temperature information for that period, and”.

(3)

For sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(b)

the home of the claimant is, or by virtue of paragraph (2)(b) is treated as, situated within a Post Office postcode area or part of such an area in respect of which the station mentioned in sub-paragraph (a)(i) or, as the case may be, (a)(ii) is the designated station.”.