{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-winter-fuel-payment-amendment-regulations-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1910",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Amendment Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-winter-fuel-payment-amendment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 1998 (the principal Regulations) to provide that the qualifying week for entitlement to a winter fuel payment for the winter of 1998 to 1999 shall be the week beginning 9th November 1998. They also amend the categories of persons who are entitled to a winter fuel payment and exclude certain persons in receipt of the mobility component of disability living allowance who are hospital in-patients from entitlement to such a payment.\nThese Regulations do not impose any charge on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1910/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:51.728891+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."
}