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| Cold Weather Payments (Wind Chill Factor) Bill
This is the text of the Cold Weather Payments (Wind Chill Factor) Bill, as presented to the House of Commons on 18 June 1997 | |||||||||
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| EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM | |||||||||
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| Cold Weather Payments (Wind Chill Factor) Bill | |||||||||
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B I L L TO Provide that wind chill factor is taken into account in the calculation of cold weather payments. BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- | |||||||||
| Cold weather payments to take account of wind chill. | 1. - (1) Article 1(2) of the Social Fund Cold Weather Payments (General) Regulations 1988 (as amended) shall be amended as follows. | ||||||||
| (2) In the definition of "forecasted period of cold weather", after the word "celsius", there shall be inserted the words "(taking account of wind chill)". | |||||||||
| (3) In the definition of "recorded period of cold weather", after the word "celsius", there shall be inserted the words "(taking account of wind chill)". | |||||||||
| Citation. | 2. This Act may be cited as the Cold Weather Payments (Wind Chill Factor) Act 1998. | ||||||||
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| © Parliamentary copyright 1997 | Prepared 21 January 1998 |