# The Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010, Note: Explanatory note

Extent: N.I.

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988 (“the 1988 Regulations”).
Regulation 2(2) updates some definitions and adds definitions of “cold weather payment” and “winter period” to regulation 1(2) of the 1988 Regulations.
Regulation 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.
Regulation 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.
The Schedule to the 1988 Regulations specifies weather stations which are relevant to determining whether there is a recorded or forecasted period of cold weather.
Regulation 2(5) replaces the Schedule to the 1988 Regulations with the Schedule to these Regulations. The new Schedule largely re-enacts the list contained in the former Schedule, but it assigns some postcodes from existing stations to two new weather stations, Glenanne and Stormont and transfers some postcodes to different weather stations.
Regulation 3 makes consequential revocations.
The 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 08457 111 222) or by logging on to the Royal Mail website at www.royalmail.com.
These Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/344/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2010/note
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