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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-winter-fuel-payment-regulations-1998/regulation-1",
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  "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": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 16th January 1998.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Administration Act” means the Social Security Administration Act 1992;\n“constant attendance allowance” means—\n(a) an increase of disablement pension under section 104 of the Contributions and Benefits Act;\n(b) an increase of an allowance which is payable in respect of constant attendance under paragraph 6(4)(b) of Schedule 8 to that Act;\n“the Contributions and Benefits Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;\n“graduated retirement benefit” means the benefit to which section 62 of the Contributions and Benefits Act applies;\n“income-based jobseeker’s allowance” has the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in the Jobseekers Act 1995 by virtue of section 1(4) of that Act;\n“the Income Support Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987;\n“industrial death benefit” means a benefit to which Part VI of Schedule 7 to the Contributions and Benefits Act refers;\n“the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations” means the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996;\n“married couple” means a man and woman who are married to each other and are members of the same household;\n“partner” means where a person—\n(a) is a member of a married or an unmarried couple living in the same household, the other member of that couple;\n(b) is married polygamously to two or more members of his household, any such member living in the same household;\n“the qualifying week” means the week beginning on 5th January 1998;\n“retirement pension” for the purposes of regulation 2(6) means a retirement pension to which Parts II and III of the Contributions and Benefits Act refer;\n“unmarried couple” means a man and woman who are not married to each other but are living together as husband and wife;\n“winter fuel payment” means a payment made under these Regulations out of the social fund, to meet expenses for heating pursuant to section 138(2) of the Contributions and Benefits Act.\n(3) Whether in any case a person is or is not to be treated as being a member of a household is to be determined in accordance with regulation 16 of the Income Support Regulations.\n(4) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference—\n(a) to a numbered regulation is to the regulation in these Regulations bearing that number;\n(b) in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph in that regulation bearing that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I.1987/1967."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I.1996/207."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Regulation 16 was amended by S.I.1988/663, 1989/534, 1990/547, 1992/468, 3147, 1993/2119, 1996/206 and 1944."
    }
  ],
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      "type": "amended",
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      "affecting_title": "The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Amendment Regulations 1998"
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      "type": "added",
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    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1880",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Amendment Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3178",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 12 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}