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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-fund-winter-fuel-payment-regulations-1998/regulation-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Official records",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), official records held by the Secretary of State as to a person’s circumstances shall be sufficient evidence thereof for the purpose of deciding his entitlement to a winter fuel payment and its amount.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply so as to exclude a review of the decision under section 25 of the Administration Act or the consideration on that review of fresh evidence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3178",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 12 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/19/regulation/4",
    "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."
}