The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1992

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 1992/2322 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 2448

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1992

Made

14th October 1992

Laid before Parliament

14th October 1992

Coming into force

(a) for the purposes of regulation 6

31st October 1992

(b) for all other purposes

1st November 1992

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 138(2) and (4) and 175(1), (3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee(2) that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force—

(a) for the purposes of regulation 6, on 31st October 1992;

(b) for all other purposes, on 1st November 1992.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988(3).

Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations

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

(a) at the beginning there shall be inserted the words “Schedule 2 to these Regulations (meaning of references to Post Office postcode areas and sectors) shall have effect and”;

(b) the definition of “Post Office postcode area” shall be omitted and in its place there shall be inserted—

• ““postcode”, except in the definition below of “sector”, includes a part of a postcode;”

Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

3.—(1) In paragraph (1)(b) of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations (prescribed circumstances for cold weather payments) after the words “Post Office postcode area” there shall be inserted the words “or part of such an area”.

(2) In paragraph (2) of the said regulation 2—

(a) after the words “Post Office postcode areas”, in sub-paragraph (a), there shall be inserted the words “or parts thereof”, and

(b) after the words “Post Office postcode area”, in both places where they occur in sub-paragraph (b), there shall be inserted the words “or part of such an area”.

(3) In paragraphs (1) and (2) of the said regulation 2 for the word “described”, wherever it occurs, there shall be substituted the word “identified”.

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

4.  In Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (Post Office postcode areas assigned to designated National Climatological Message Stations)—

(a) for the heading of column (2) of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations there shall be substituted the heading

• “Identification of Post Office postcode areas or parts thereof”;

(b) for entries 8, 11, 22, 23, 25, 33, 34, 53, 56, 58, and 61, there shall be respectively substituted the entries in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

Amendment of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations

5.  For Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (definition of Post Office postcode area) there shall be substituted the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.

Revocation

6.  The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1992(4) are revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.

Nicholas Scott

Minister of State,

Department of Social Security

14th October 1992

Regulation 4

SCHEDULE 1

Column (1)	Column (2)
National Climatological Message Station	Identification of Post Office postcode areas or parts thereof
8.  BOULMER	NE22, NE24, NE61—71. TD1, TD15.
11.  BRIZE NORTON	GLI—8, GL10, GL11, GL14—20, GL50—56. HP17—22, HP27. OX1—18, OX20, OX 33, OX44. SN7.
22.  EDINBURGH AIRPORT	EH1—37, EH39—42, EH47—49, EH51—55. FK1—21. KY3, KY4, KY11, KY12. TD3, TD5, TD10, TD11, TD13, TD14.
23.  ESKDALEMUIR	DG3, DG4, DG10, DG13, DG14. EH38, EH43—46. ML12. TD1, TD2, TD4, TD6—9.
25.  FINNINGLEY	DN1—14. S1—14, S17, S19, That part of S30 which consists of sectors: S30 3, S30 4, S31, S60—66, S70—75.
33.  LEEDS WEATHER CENTRE	That part of HD8 which consists of sectors: HD8 8, HD8 9. HG1—5. LS1—28. WF1—17. YO1—5, YO8.
34.  LEEMING	DH1—3, DH6—9. DL1—17. NE1—13, NE15—21, NE28, NE39—40. TS1—6, TS7—9, TS14—23. YO6, YO7.
53.  TYNEMOUTH	DH4, DK5. NE23, NE25—27, NE29—38. SR1—8. TS27—29.
56.  WATNALL	CV9, CV13. DE1—7, DE11—15, DE21—24, DE45, DE55, DE56, DE65, DE72—75. DN22. LE1—18, LE65, LE67. NGI—22, NG25. S18, S40—45, S80, S81. ST14.
58.  WHITBY COASTGUARD	TS10—13, TS24—26. YO11—18, YO21, YO22, YO25.
61.  WILSDEN	BB8, BB8—12. BD1—24. HD1—7, and that part of HD8 which consists of sector: HD8 0. HX1—7. LS29. OL3, OL13—15. That part of S30 which consists of sectors: S30 1, S30 2, S30 5, S30 6.

Regulation 5

SCHEDULE 2

Regulation 1(2)

“SCHEDULE 2 POST OFFICE POSTCODE AREAS AND SECTORS

1.   In these Regulations a reference to an identified Post Office postcode area is a reference to that part of Great Britain which is identified by the postcode in question in the Postcode Atlas of Great Britain and Northern Ireland published by John Bartholomew & Son Ltd. in 1989(5) except that, in the case of a Post Office postcode area identified by a postcode specified in column (1) of Table 1 below, such a reference is a reference to that part of Great Britain which is so identified in the postcode map published by Datamaps Ltd.(6) which is described opposite thereto in columns (2), (3) and (4) of the said Table.

Table 1

(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Postcodes	Map No.	Map Area	Year of Publication
AB2, AB4, AB5, AB20, AB22, AB23, AB41—45, AB51—56	56	Buchan & Gordon	1991
AB3, AB30—38	52	Aberdeen & Deeside	1991
	& 56	Buchan & Gordon
BH21, BH31	5	New Forest & Isle of Wight	1991
CR2—8	9	London & Surrey	1991
DE4, DE45	29	The Peak & South Yorkshire	1992
DE2, DE3, DE5—7, DE21—24, DE56, DE65, DE72—75, LE6, LE65, LE67	24	Derby & Nottingham	1992
HP17, HP27, OX5, OX8, OX9, OX18, OX20, OX33, OX44	14	Oxford	1992
LE8, LE18	19	Birmingham & Nottingham	1992

2.   In these Regulations a reference to an identified sector of a Post Office postcode area identified by a postcode specified in column (1) of Table 2 below is a reference to that part of that area which is identified by the sector’s postcode in the postcode map published by John Bartholomew & Son Ltd. which is described in columns (2) to (5) of the said Table opposite that area’s postcode.

Table 2

(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
Postcodes	Map No.	Map Area	ISBN No.	Year pf Publication
CF8	12	Cardiff & Glamorgan	07028 0512 28.99	1988
HD8	29	The Peak and South Yorkshire	07028 05297	1989
LA2	31	Lancashire	07028 0531 98.99	1987
LN4	25 &	Fenland	07028 0525 48.99	1987
	30	Lincoln	07028 0530 08.99	1987
NP1	13	Hereford & Gloucester	07028 0513 08.99	1987
S30	29	The Peak and South Yorkshire	07028 05297	1989”

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend Schedule 1 and substitute a new Schedule 2 to the Special Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988 changing the areas linked to national climatological message stations by way of Post Office postcodes.

The Postcode Atlas of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the postcode maps may be obtained from their publishers.

A person may establish the current postcode for his address by contacting any post office.

The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1992 (which have not come into force) are revoked.

(1)

1992 c. 4; section 138(4) is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning assigned to the word “prescribed”.

(2)

See sections 172(1) and 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c. 5).

(3)

S.I. 1988/1724; relevant amending instrument S.I. 1991/2238.

(4)

S.I. 1992/2322.

(5)

ISBN No. 07028, 09187. John Bartholomew & Son Ltd.’s address is Duncan Street, Edinburgh, EH9 1TA.

(6)

Datamaps Ltd.’s address is Unit 1, 13 Wembley Commercial Centre, East Lane, Wembley, Middlesex HA9 7XX.