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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Temporary Increase) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 and shall come into operation on 15th September 2008.
(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 2008-09 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 2008-09 winter” means the winter which follows the qualifying week beginning on 15th September 2008.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 8th July 2008
(L.S.)John O’Neill
A senior officer of the Department for Social Development
