The Welfare Food Amendment Regulations 1990

Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

2.  In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations (interpretation)–

(a) for the definition of “approved price” there shall be substituted–

““approved price” means the lowest price which in the ordinary course of his business a supplier charges any of his customers during the week in which a milk token was used for a pint of or, if he supplies milk only in metric measures, for half a litre of milk”;

(b) after the definition of “local social services authority” there shall be inserted–

““metropolitan police district” means the district consisting of the areas specified in section 76 of the London Government Act 1963(1)”;

(c) in the definition of “milk” for the words “means only liquid cows' milk including” there shall be substituted the words, “except in the definition of “processor” below, means only heat treated liquid cows' milk including heat treated”;

(d) after the definition of “period of validity” there shall be inserted–

““processor” means a person who subjects milk to a process of heat treatment and bottles or otherwise packages it or a person who imports such heat treated and bottled or packaged milk”;

(e) after the definition of “registered day nursery” there shall be inserted–

• ““standard reimbursement price” means–

  (a)

  £1.89 in respect of each milk token received from a beneficiary in exchange for milk supplied outside the metropolitan police district,

  (b)

  £1.96 in respect of each milk token received from a beneficiary in exchange for milk supplied in the metropolitan police district;”;

(f) in the definition of “supplier” after “milk” there shall be inserted, “or a person, other than a beneficiary or the Secretary of State, who receives a milk token”.

(1)

1963 c. 33; paragraphs (b) to (d) of section 76(1) were substituted by the Local Authorities etc. (Miscellaneous Provision) Order 1974 (S.I. 1974/482), article 11.