The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 3368

SOCIAL SECURITY

The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 2001

Made

9th October 2001

Laid before Parliament

11th October 2001

Coming into force

1st November 2001

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him 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 that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st November 2001.

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988

2.—(1) Schedule 1 to the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988(3) (identification of stations and postcode districts) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) For entries 6, 11, 13, 20, 29 and 70 there shall be respectively substituted the entries in the Schedule to these Regulations.

(3) The new entry 16A (Cassley) specified in the Schedule to these Regulations shall be inserted after entry 16 (Carlisle).

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Malcolm Wicks

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Work and Pensions

9th October 2001

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE

Column (1)	Column (2)
Meteorological Office Station	Postcode districts
6.  Bingley	BB4, BB8-12, BB18. BD1-24. DE4, DE45. HD1-9. HX1-7.LS21, LS29. OL3, OL12-15. S32-33, S36. SK12, SK17, SK22-23. ST13.
11.  Bracknell, Beaufort Park	GU 1-4, GU9-25, GU46-47, GU52. HP1-16, HP23. RG1-2, RG4-10, RG12, RG14, RG17-31, RG40-42, RG45. SL0-9. SP10-11.
13.  Brize Norton	CV36. GL54-56. HP17-22, HP27. OX1-18, OX20, OX25-29, OX33, OX39, OX44, OX49. SN7.
16A.  Cassley	IV27.
20.  Crosby	BB1-3, BB5-7. CH1-8, CH41-49, CH60-66. FY1-8. L1-40. LL11-14. PR1-9, PR25-26. SY14. WA1-6, WA10-12. WN1-8.
29.  Heathrow	BR1-8. CR0, CR2-8. DA1-2, DA4-8, DA14-18. E1-18. E1W. EC1-4. EN1-11. HA0-9. IG1-11. KT1-24. N1-22. NW1-11. RM1-13. SE1-28. SM1-7. SW1-20. TW1-20. UB1-10. W1-14. WC1-2. WD1-7, WD17-19, WD23-35.
70.  Wick Airport	IV25, IV28. KW1-3, KW5-14.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988 (S.I. 1988/1724) in relation to the list of weather stations and applicable postcode districts in Schedule 1 to those Regulations, to take account of an additional weather station and changes to 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 their address by contacting the Royal Mail Postcode Enquiries Office (tel. no. 08457 111222).

These Regulations do not impose a charge on business.

(1)

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

(2)

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

(3)

S.I. 1988/1724; Schedule 1 was substituted by S.I. 2000/2690.