This Statutory Rule is made in consequence of a defect in S.R. 2003 No. 349 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Rule.
2003 No. 389
The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003
Made
Coming into operation
The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 134(2) and 171(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 19921, and now vested in it2, and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 3rd September 2003.
2
The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 19543 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
Amendment of regulation 2 of the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations2
For paragraph (2)(b) of the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20004 (social fund winter fuel payments) there shall be substituted the following paragraph –
b
in paragraph (1)(ii), for £100 there shall be substituted £200, except that –
i
where he is in that week living with a person to whom a payment under these Regulations has been, or falls to be, made in respect of the winter following that week who has also attained the age of 80 in or before that week, or
ii
where he is in residential care,
there shall be substituted £150.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 28th August 2003.
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)