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1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 7th November 1988.
(2) F1... In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–
[F2“the 2012 Act” means the Welfare Reform Act 2012;]
[F3“the Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;]
[F4“the Welfare Reform Act” means the Welfare Reform Act 2007;]
“the General Regulations” means the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 M1;
[F5“the Met Office” means the Met Office of the [F6Department for Science, Innovation and Technology];]
F7...
[F8“claimant” means a person who is claiming or has claimed income support [F9, state pension credit [F10, income-based jobseeker's allowance [F11, income-related employment and support allowance or universal credit [F12or who is in receipt of owner-occupier loan payments]]]];]
[F13“cold weather payment” means a payment to meet expenses for heating made out of the social fund under section 138(2) of the Act and these Regulations;]
[F14“family” has the meaning given to it in section 137 of the Act and the General Regulations;]
[F15“forecast” means a weather forecast produced by the [F16Met] Office F17... and supplied to the [F18Department for Work and Pensions] on a daily basis [F19between 1st November in any year and 31st March in the following year,] which provides the expected average mean daily temperature for a period of 7 consecutive days;]
[F15“forecasted period of cold weather” means a period of 7 consecutive days, during which the average of the mean daily temperature for that period is forecasted to be equal to or below 0 degrees celsius; and for the purposes of this definition where a day forms part of a forecasted period of cold weather it shall not form part of any other such forecasted period;]
“home” means the dwelling, together with any garage, garden and outbuildings normally occupied by the claimant as his home, including any premises not so occupied which it is impracticable or unreasonable to sell separatelyF20...;
[F21“income-based jobseeker’s allowance” has the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in the Jobseekers Act 1995 by virtue of section 1(4) of that Act;]
[F22“income-related employment and support allowance” means an income-related allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act (employment and support allowance);]
[F23“income support” means income support under Part 7 of the Act;]
F24...
“mean daily temperature” means, in respect of a day, the average of the maximum temperature and minimum temperature recorded at a [F25site] for that day;
[F26“member of the support group” means a person who has or is treated as having limited capability for work-related activity under Part 6 of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008;]
[F27“member of the work-related activity group” means a person who has or is treated as having limited capability for work under Part 5 of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 other than by virtue of regulation 30 of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008;]
[F28“overlap period” means any period of a day or days, where a day forms part of a recorded period of cold weather and also forms part of a forecasted period of cold weather;]
[F29“owner-occupier loan payments” means loan payments made under the Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017;]
F30...
F24...
F7...
[F31“postcode district” [F32shall be construed in accordance with the Postcode Address File (within the meaning given by section 116 of the Postal Services Act 2000)] [F33except in the case of any postcode district which is identified with an alpha suffix which shall, for the purposes of these Regulations, be treated as if it forms part of a postcode district which is identified without that suffix];]
[F34“recorded period of cold weather” means a period of 7 consecutive days, during which the average of the mean daily temperature recorded for that period was equal to or below 0 degrees celsius; and for the purposes of this definition where a day forms part of a recorded period of cold weather it shall not form part of any other such recorded period;]
F35...
[F36“state pension credit” has the meaning given by section 1(1) of the State Pension Credit Act 2002”]
[F37“site” means a site accredited by the Met Office in relation to which a period of cold weather may be forecasted or recorded for the purposes of these Regulations;]
[F38“universal credit” means universal credit under Part 1 of the 2012 Act;]
F24...
[F13“winter period” means the period beginning on 1st November in any year and ending on 31st March in the following year.]
F39(2A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a numbered regulation is to the regulation in these Regulations bearing that number and a reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph or sub-paragraph is to the paragraph or sub-paragraph in that regulation bearing that number.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 1(2) deleted (4.11.1996) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2544), regs. 1(1), 2(2)
F2Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (1.11.2013) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/248), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(a)
F3Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (1.11.2010) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2442), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(a)
F4Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 6(2)(a)
F5Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (1.11.2016) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/876), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(a)
F6Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (3.5.2023) by The Secretaries of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, for Science, Innovation and Technology, for Business and Trade, and for Culture, Media and Sport and the Transfer of Functions (National Security and Investment Act 2021 etc) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/424), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 25 (with art. 17)
F7Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (1.11.2010) by virtue of The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2442), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(b)
F8Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (1.11.1991) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment No.2 Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2238), regs. 1(1), 2(a)
F9Words in reg. 1(2) added (1.11.2005) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2724), regs. 1(1), 3(a)(i)
F10Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 6(2)(b)
F11Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (1.11.2013) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/248), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(b)
F12Words in reg. 1(2) inserted by S.I. 2017/725, Sch. 5 para. 10(2)(a) (as inserted) (6.4.2018) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest and Social Fund Maternity Grant (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/307), regs. 1(2), 2(18)(e)
F13Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (1.11.2010) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2442), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(e)
F14Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (1.11.2010) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2442), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(c)
F15Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (1.11.1991) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment No.2 Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2238), regs. 1(1), 2(b)
F16Word in reg. 1(2) substituted (1.11.2016) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/876), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(b)
F17Words in reg. 1(2) deleted (4.11.1996) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2544), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(a)
F18Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (1.11.2008) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/2569), regs. 1(3), 2(2)
F19Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (4.11.1996) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2544), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(b)
F20Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (1.11.2022) by virtue of The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (Winter Heating Assistance) (Consequential Modifications) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/1018), arts. 1(2), 2(2)
F21Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (4.11.1996) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2544), regs. 1(1), 2(5)
F22Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (27.10.2008) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1554), regs. 1(2)(b), 6(2)(c)
F23Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (1.11.2010) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2442), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(d)
F24Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (1.11.2005) by virtue of The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2724), regs. 1(1), 3(a)(ii)
F25Word in reg. 1(2) substituted (9.7.2020) by The Social Fund and Social Security (Claims and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/600), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(a)
F26Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (23.6.2017) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provision) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/581), regs. 1, 2(a) (with reg. 10)
F27Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (23.6.2017) by The Employment and Support Allowance (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional and Savings Provision) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/581), regs. 1, 2(b) (with reg. 10)
F28Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (1.11.1991) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment No.2 Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2238), regs. 1(1), 2(c)
F29Words in reg. 1(2) inserted by S.I. 2017/725, Sch. 5 para. 10(2)(b) (as inserted) (6.4.2018) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest and Social Fund Maternity Grant (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/307), regs. 1(2), 2(18)(e)
F30Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (1.11.1991) by virtue of The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment No.2 Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2238), regs. 1(1), 2(d)
F31Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (4.11.1996) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2544), regs. 1(1), 2(6)
F32Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (26.3.2001) by The Postal Services Act 2000 (Consequential Modifications No. 1) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1149), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 76
F33Words in reg. 1(2) added (1.11.1997) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2311), regs. 1(1), 2
F34Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (1.11.1991) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment No.2 Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2238), regs. 1(1), 2(e)
F35Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (4.11.1996) by virtue of The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2544), regs. 1(1), 2(7)
F36Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (1.11.2005) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2724), regs. 1(1), 3(a)(iii)
F37Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (9.7.2020) by The Social Fund and Social Security (Claims and Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/600), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(b)
F38Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (1.11.2013) by The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/248), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(c)
F39Reg. 1(2A) omitted (1.11.2005) by virtue of The Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Amendment Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/2724), regs. 1(1), 3(b)
Marginal Citations
M11987/1967; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1988/663, 910, 999, 1228 and 1445.
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