
1 

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Temporary Increase) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 11th November 2000.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
2 
For the purposes of making social fund winter fuel payments in respect of the winter which immediately precedes the spring of the year 2001, regulation 2(b) of the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (social fund winter fuel payments) shall be modified as if—
(a) in head (i) for the reference to £150 there were substituted a reference to £200, and
(b) in head (ii) for the reference to £75 there were substituted a reference to £100.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 9th November 2000.
John O'Neill
Senior Officer of the
Department for Social Development
