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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-winter-fuel-payment-regulations-1998/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-winter-fuel-payment-regulations-1998/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/19",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-winter-fuel-payment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations provide for a winter fuel payment to be paid to persons who fall within the categories prescribed in regulation 2 on any day within the qualifying period (defined in regulation 1(2)) of amounts specified in regulation 3. A decision as to entitlement may be made on the basis of official records held by the Secretary of State but not so as to exclude other evidence on a review of that decision under the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (regulation 4).\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/1998/19/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:39:36.213182+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."
}