{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-regulations-1988/regulation-2C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-regulations-1988/regulation-2C.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1724",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-cold-weather-payments-general-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/2C",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2C",
  "heading": "Review and variation of designations",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State must, in accordance with paragraph (2), review a designation under regulation 2A to determine if it remains appropriate.\n(2) Each designation must be reviewed every 12 months, in the period beginning with 1st November and ending with 31st October.\n(3) If, on review, or at any other time, the Secretary of State is of the opinion that a designation is no longer appropriate, the Secretary of State must—\n(a) vary the designation in such manner as the Secretary of State considers expedient, and\n(b) publish details of the varied designation.\n(4) Publication under paragraph (3)(b) may be in such manner as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.\n(5) When determining whether to vary a designation, the Secretary of State must have regard to any recommendation made by the Met Office.\n(6) For the purposes of this regulation, whether a designation is appropriate includes, in particular, whether the site designated—\n(a) is geographically and climatologically representative for the relevant postcode district, and\n(b) provides accurate temperature information.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 2A-2C inserted (1.11.2016) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/876), regs. 1(2), 2(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2C(6) substituted (9.7.2020) by The Social Fund and Social Security (Claims and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/600), regs. 1(1), 3(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1724/regulation/2C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:57:03.228883+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."
}