The Welfare Food Amendment Regulations 1990

Substitution of regulation 15 of the principal Regulations

6.  For regulation 15 of the principal Regulations (reimbursement of suppliers) there shall be substituted the following regulation–

“Return of milk tokens to the Secretary of State.

15.— (1) This regulation applies to milk supplied against a milk token or for which an allowance has been made in accordance with regulation 13.

(2) A supplier not being a processor who receives a milk token shall deliver it either to the person from whom he obtained the milk to which this regulation applies or to the Secretary of State in accordance with Schedule 5.

(3) A processor who receives a milk token shall deliver it to the Secretary of State in accordance with Schedule 5.

(4) Where a person other than the Secretary of State receives a milk token under paragraph (2) he shall pay the person delivering it to him not less than–

(a) a sum equal to seven times what was the approved price of the supplier delivering the token at the beginning of the token’s period of validity; or

(b) a sum equal to what was the standard reimbursement price at the beginning of the token’s period of validity,

whichever sum is the lower.

(5) Subject to paragraph (6), where the Secretary of State receives a milk token under paragraph (2) or (3) he shall pay the person delivering it to him a sum equal to–

(a) seven times what was the approved price of the supplier delivering the token at the beginning of the token’s period of validity; or

(b) what was the standard reimbursement price at the beginning of the token’s period of validity,

whichever sum is the lower.

(6) Where the Secretary of State receives a milk token under paragraph (2) from a supplier who received the token direct from a beneficiary and whose approved price at the beginning of the token’s period of validity was 33 pence or more he shall pay the supplier a sum equal to seven times that approved price less ten per cent.”.