The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment No. 3 Regulations 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/2448
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment No. 3 Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 1st November 1991 immediately after the coming into force of the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment No. 2 Regulations 1991 .

(2) In these Regulations “the Cold Weather Payments Regulations ” means the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988 .

Section 2 Insertion of Regulation 1A of the Cold Weather Payments Regulations

After regulation 1 of the Cold Weather Payments Regulations (citation, com mencement and interpretation) there shall be inserted the following regulation–

Prescribed description of persons

(1A) The description of persons prescribed as persons to whom a payment may be made out of the Social Fund to meet expenses for heating under section 32(2A) of the Act is claimants who have been awarded income support in respect of at least one day during the recorded or the forecasted period of cold weather specified in regulation 2(1)(a) and either–

(i) whose applicable amount includes one or more of the premiums specified in paragraphs 9 to 14 of Part III of Schedule 2 to the General Regulations; or

(ii) whose family includes a member aged less than 5.

Section 3 Amendment of regulation 2 of the Cold Weather Payments Regulations

Regulation 2 of the Cold Weather Payments Regulations (prescribed circum-stances) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Regulation, namely–

(a) in paragraph (1)(b), at the end the word “; and” shall be omitted;

(b) paragraph (1)(c) shall be omitted;

(c) in paragraph (5)(a) after the words “a claimant” there shall be inserted the words “falls within the description of persons prescribed in Regulation 1A and”;

(d) in paragraph (5)(c) for the words “satisfy the prescribed circumstances in paragraph (1)(c)” there shall be substituted the words “fall within the description of persons prescribed in Regulation 1A”.