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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 3rd September 2003.
(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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For paragraph (2)(b) of the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (social fund winter fuel payments) there shall be substituted the following paragraph –“
(b) in paragraph (1)(ii), for £100 there shall be substituted £200, except that –
(i) where he is in that week living with a person to whom a payment under these Regulations has been, or falls to be, made in respect of the winter following that week who has also attained the age of 80 in or before that week, or
(ii) where he is in residential care,
there shall be substituted £150.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 28th August 2003.
D. A. Baker
Senior Officer of the
Department for Social Development
