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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Temporary Increase) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 and shall come into operation on 20th September 2010.
(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) For the purpose of making social fund winter fuel payments in respect of the 2010-11 winter, regulation 2 of the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (social fund winter fuel payments) is applied as if—
(a) the references to £100 (in both places) were to £125;
(b) in paragraphs (1)(i), (2)(a) and (3), the reference to £200 were to £250;
(c) in paragraph (2)(b), the reference to £200 were to £275;
(d) in paragraph (2)(b), the reference to £150 were to £200; and
(e) the references to £300 (in both places) were to £400.
(2) In this regulation, “the 2010-11 winter” means the winter which follows the qualifying week beginning on 20th September 2010.
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The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Temporary Increase) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 are revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 19th May 2010
(L.S.)Anne Mc Cleary
A senior officer of the Department for Social Development
