{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2013/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2013/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/443",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Social Security (Claims and Payment) Regulations 1987",
  "text": "In paragraph 6 (fuel costs) of Schedule 9 (deductions from benefit and direct payment to third parties) to the Social Security (Claims and Payment) Regulations 1987—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1)—\n(i) for “item of mains gas or mains electricity including any charges for the reconnection of gas or disconnection or reconnection of electricity (“fuel item”)”, substitute “fuel item”; and\n(ii) for “that fuel”, substitute “the fuel in respect of which the debt arose (“the relevant fuel”)”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (2)(b), for “that fuel item”, substitute “the relevant fuel”;\n(c) at the end of sub-paragraph (2)(b), add “, plus such weekly amount as is required to meet any payments required to be made under a green deal plan within the meaning of section 1 of the Energy Act 2011 (“the 2011 Act”).”;\n(d) in sub-paragraph (4)(a), for “that fuel item”, substitute “the relevant fuel”; and\n(e) after sub-paragraph (7), add—\n“(8) In this paragraph, “fuel item” means—\n(a) any charge for mains gas, including for the reconnection of mains gas; and\n(b) any charge for mains electricity, including any charge for the disconnection or reconnection of mains electricity and including any payments required to be made under a green deal plan within the meaning of section 1 of the 2011 Act.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/1968.Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1990/2208, 1994/2319, 1999/3178 and 2002/3019."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/443/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:02:51.484227+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."
}