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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Temporary Increase) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 and shall come into operation on 18th September 2023.
(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 2023-24 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 £250;
(b) in paragraphs (1)(i), (2)(a) and (3), the reference to £200 were to £500;
(c) in paragraph (2)(b), the reference to £200 were to £350;
(d) in paragraph (2)(b), the reference to £150 were to £300; and
(e) the references to £300 (in both places) were to £600.
(2) In this regulation “the 2023-24 winter” means the winter that follows the qualifying week beginning on 18th September 2023.
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The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Temporary Increase) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 are revoked.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 26th May 2023.
(L.S.)David Tarr
A senior officer of the Department for Communities
