
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 13th November 2000.
2 
In the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2000—
(a) in regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation)—
(i) in paragraph (2), the definition of “residential care home” shall be omitted;
(ii) in paragraph (3)—(aa) for the words “In these” there shall be substituted the words “Subject to paragraph (3A), in these”; and(bb) for the word “lives” there shall be substituted the word “resides”;
(iii) after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—“
(3A) For the purposes of paragraph (3)(a)(i)—
(a) paragraph 2A(3) of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations (applicable amounts) shall apply as if—
(i) for the words “sub-paragraph (2), but subject to sub-paragraph (4),” there were substituted the words “regulation 1(3)(a)(i) of the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2000”; and
(ii) the words from “and a person resides in” to the end of that sub-paragraph were omitted; and
(b) a person who resides in an establishment which is not a residential care home shall be treated as residing in a residential care home during any period when he has a preserved right under regulation 19 of the Income Support Regulations (applicable amounts for persons in residential care and nursing homes).”; and
(b) in regulation 3(1)(a)(i) (persons not entitled to a social fund winter fuel payment), for the words “of a person” there shall be substituted the words “of, and living with, a person”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Social Security.
Angela Eagle
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Social Security
19th October 2000