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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 2nd November 2001.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
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(1) The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) In regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation)—
(a) in paragraph (3)(b), for “resides” there shall be substituted “lives”;
(b) for sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (3A), there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—“
(a) a person resides in a residential care home where the home in which he resides is included in sub-paragraphs (a) or (b) of paragraph 2A(3) of Schedule 2 to the Income Support Regulations (applicable amounts)”.
(3) In regulation 2(b) (social fund winter fuel payments)—
(a) in sub-paragraph (i), for “£150” there shall be substituted “£200”, and
(b) in sub-paragraph (ii), for “£75” there shall be substituted “£100”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 16th October 2001.
Bryan Davis
Senior Officer of the
Department for Social Development
