The Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 1 of the principal Regulations (citation, commencement and interpretation)—

(a) in paragraph (2) —

(i) in the definition of “claimant”, after “income support” there shall be added “, state pension credit or income-based jobseeker’s allowance”(1),

(ii) the definitions of “married couple”, “partner”, “sector” and “unmarried couple” shall be omitted(2),

(iii) for the definition of “postcode”, there shall be substituted the following definition—

““Post Office postcode area” means those parts of Northern Ireland which are described in the postcode map published by Datamaps Ltd(3) and are identified by the postcode in question;”,

(iv) after the definition of “recorded period of cold weather”, there shall be inserted the following definition—

““state pension credit” has the meaning given by section 1(1) of the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002(4);”, and

(b) paragraphs (3) and (4) shall be omitted.

(1)

The definition of “claimant” was substituted by regulation 2(a) of S.R. 1991 No. 464

(2)

The definitions of “married couple”, “partner” and “unmarried couple” were inserted by regulation 3(2)(a) of S.R. 1990 No. 132 and the definition of “sector” was inserted by regulation 2(e) of S.R. 1991 No. 464

(3)

Map No. 63, year of publication 1991

(4)

2002 c. 14 (N.I.)