The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1990

Made: 20th November 1990

Laid before Parliament: 21st November 1990

Coming into force: 12th December 1990

The Secretary of State for Social Security, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 32(2A) and 84(1) of the Social Security Act 1986[^f00001] and section 166(1) to (3A) of the Social Security Act 1975[^f00002] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after agreement by the Social Security Advisory Committee that proposals to make these Regulations should not be referred to it[^f00003], hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 12th December 1990.

• (2) In these Regulations “the Cold Weather Payments Regulations” means the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988[^f00004].

Substitution of the Schedule to the Cold Weather Payments Regulations

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For the Schedule to the Cold Weather Payments Regulations there shall be substituted the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE — TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR THE SCHEDULE TO THE COLD WEATHER PAYMENTS REGULATIONS

Signed

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

Nicholas Scott — Minister of State, — Department of Social Security — 20th November 1990

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988 by substituting a Schedule which revises in part the description of the areas covered by national climatological message stations and introduces new national climatological message stations to cover parts of the country.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1986 c. 50; section 32(2A) was added by section 11 of and paragraph 2 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7); section 84(1) is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning assigned to the word “prescribed”.

[^f00002]: 1975 c. 14; section 166(3A) was inserted by section 62(1) of the Social Security Act 1986 and section 166(1) to (3A) is applied by section 83(1) of that Act.

[^f00003]: See section 10(1) of the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30); and section 61(1)(b) of the Social Security Act 1986.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1988/1724, amended by S.I. 1988/1908, 1989/2388 and 1990/580.