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.
1992 No. 2448
SOCIAL SECURITY

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

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
(a) for the purposes of regulation 6
(b) for all other purposes
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 19921 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee2 that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

(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 19883.

Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations2.

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 Regulations3.

(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 Regulations4.

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 Regulations5.

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.

Revocation6.

The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 19924 are revoked.

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

Nicholas Scott
Minister of State,
Department of Social Security

SCHEDULE 1

Regulation 4

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.

SCHEDULE 2

Regulation 5

“SCHEDULE 2POST OFFICE POSTCODE AREAS AND SECTORS

Regulation 1(2)

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 19895 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”

(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.