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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
Social Security
Made
15th September 2022
Coming into operation
19th September 2022
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Temporary Increase) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 and shall come into operation on 19th September 2022.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954( 3) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
2.—(1) For the purpose of making social fund winter fuel payments in respect of the 2022-23 winter, regulation 2 of the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000( 4) (social fund winter fuel payments) is applied as if—
(a) the references to £100 (in both places) were to £250;
(b) in paragraphs 1(i), 2(a) and (3), the reference to £200 were to £500;
(c) in paragraph 2(b), the reference to £200 were to £350;
(d) in paragraph 2(b), the reference to £150 were to £300; and
(e) the references to £300 (in both places) were to £600.
(2) In this regulation “ the 2022-23 winter” means the winter that follows the qualifying week beginning on 19th September 2022.
3. The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Temporary Increase) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010( 5) are revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 15th September 2022.
(L.S.)
Anne McCleary
A senior officer of the Department for Communities
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations modify the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 to provide for a temporary increase in winter fuel payments for the 2022-23 winter.
These Regulations also revoke the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Temporary Increase) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010, which provided for an increase in payments for the 2010-11 winter.
These Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.
1992 c. 7; section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)
See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481and section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.))
S.R. 2000 No. 91; regulation 2 was substituted by regulation 2 of S.R. 2003 No. 349and amended by regulation 2 of S.R. 2003 No. 389, regulation 2(3) of S.R. 2004 No. 354, regulation 24(3) of S.R. 2008 No. 286, regulation 6(3) of S.R. 2010 No. 103, regulation 2(2) of S.R. 2013 No. 191, regulation 4(3) of S.R. 2015 No. 34, regulation 2(2) of S.R. 2015 No. 216and by paragraph 9 of the Schedule to S.R. 2018 No. 1085