# The Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996, Regulation 4: Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations


(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.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/488/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-4
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