{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/488",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations (prescribed circumstances) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) In sub-paragraph (a)—\n(a) in head (i), the words from “or, if that station” to “for that period” shall be omitted;\n(b) in head (ii) for “and” there shall be substituted “or”, and\n(c) after head (ii) there shall be inserted the following head—\n“(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”.\n(3) For sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—\n“(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.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2010/344",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/488/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:32:57.263188+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."
}