SOCIAL SECURITY Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 4th November 1996. 2 In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations ” means the Social Fund (Cold Weather Payments) (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988 . 3 The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations 2 In regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations (interpretation)— a in the definition of “forecast” after “on a daily basis” there shall be inserted “from and including 1st November in any year up to 31st March in the following year,”; b after the definition of “home” there shall be inserted the following definition— “an income-based jobseeker’s allowance” has the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 by virtue of Article 3(4) of that Order; , and c for the definition of “station” there shall be substituted the following definition— “station” means a station accredited by the Meteorological Office at which a period of cold weather may be forecasted or recorded for the purposes of these Regulations; . Amendment of regulation 1A of the principal Regulations 3 In regulation 1A of the principal Regulations (prescribed description of persons)— a after “income support” there shall be inserted “or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance”, and b after paragraph ( a ) there shall be inserted the following paragraph— ( aa ) whose applicable amount includes one or more of the premiums specified in paragraphs 10 to 16 of Part III of Schedule 1 to the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 but does not include the allowance specified in paragraph 3 of that Schedule (residential allowances); or . Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations 4 1 Regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations (prescribed circumstances) shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3). 2 In sub-paragraph ( a )— a in head (i), the words from “or, if that station” to “for that period” shall be omitted; b in head (ii) for “and” there shall be substituted “or”, and c after head (ii) there shall be inserted the following head— iii if a station referred to in (i) or (ii) (“the primary station”) is unable to provide temperature information for the period in question, there is, as the case may be, a recorded period of cold weather or a forecasted period of cold weather at the nearest such station to the primary station able to provide temperature information for that period, and . 3 For sub-paragraph ( b ) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph— b the home of the claimant is, or by virtue of paragraph (2)( b ) is treated as, situated within a Post Office postcode area or part of such an area in respect of which the station mentioned in sub-paragraph ( a )(i) or, as the case may be, ( a )(ii) is the designated station. . Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland on 14th October 1996. John O'Neill Assistant Secretary