The Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 No. 369


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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2012 No. 369

Social Security

The Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

Made

27th September 2012

Coming into operation

1st November 2012

The Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations 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 1992(1) and now vested in it(2).

The Social Security Advisory Committee has agreed that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to it(3).

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 and shall come into operation on 1st November 2012.

Amendment of the Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) Regulations

2. In the Schedule to the Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988(4) for "St Angelo" substitute "Thomastown".

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 27th September 2012

(L.S.)

Anne McCleary

A senior officer of the Department for Social Development

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Schedule to the Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988 consequential upon the closure by the Meteorological Office of the St Angelo weather station and its replacement by the new Thomastown station. The postcode districts linked to the station remain unchanged.

(1)

1992 c. 7; section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)

(2)

See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481

(3)

See sections 149(1) and (2) and 150(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 8); section 149(1) was substituted and section 150(1) was amended by section 89 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (c. 47)

(4)

S.R. 1988 No. 368; the Schedule was substituted by regulation 2 of S.R. 2011 No. 383


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