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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
Social Security
Made
26th May 2023
Coming into operation
18th September 2023
1.—(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( 4) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
2.—(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( 5) (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.
3. The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Temporary Increase) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022( 6) 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
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations modify the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 ( S.R. 2000 No. 91) to provide for a temporary increase in winter fuel payments for the 2023-24 winter.
These Regulations also revoke the Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Temporary Increase) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 ( S.R. 2022. No.215), which provided for an increase in payments for the 2022-23 winter.
These Regulations make in relation to Northern Ireland only provision corresponding to provision contained in Regulations made by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in relation to Great Britain and accordingly, by virtue of section 149(3) of, and paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to, the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, are not subject to the requirement of section 149(2) of that Act for prior reference to the Social Security Advisory Committee.
A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the private or voluntary sectors.
The Department for Social Development was renamed the Department for Communities in accordance with section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.))
1992 c. 7; section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)
See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481
S.R. 2000 No. 91; regulation 2 was substituted by regulation 2 of S.R. 2003 No. 349and amended by regulation 2 of S.R. 2003 No. 389, regulation 2(3) of S.R. 2004 No. 354, regulation 24(3) of S.R. 2008 No. 286, regulation 6(3) of S.R. 2010 No. 103, regulation 2(2) of S.R. 2013 No. 191, regulation 4(3) of S.R. 2015 No. 34, regulation 2(2) of S.R. 2015 No. 216and by paragraph 9 of the Schedule to S.R. 2018 No. 1085
