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Health Services and Public Health Act 1968

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61Welfare foods

(1)The Minister of Health and the Secretary of State shall together have power (exercisable by order made by statutory instrument) to extend the definition of " welfare food " in section 4(2) of the [1964 c. 60.] Emergency Laws (Re-enactments and Repeals) Act 1964 (which empowers them to regulate or prohibit the acquisition, distribution, &c, of any such food and to control the price to be charged for it), but a statutory instrument containing an order by which this power is exercised shall not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before Parliament and has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

(2)Any expenses incurred by the said Minister or the Secretary of State in connection with the operation of a scheme administered by a government department for the provision of any welfare food as for the time being defined by the said section 4(2) shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

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