The Welfare Food Amendment Regulations 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Welfare Food Regulations 1988 (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulations 2, 4(2), (3) and (4) amend regulations 3 and 5 of the principal Regulations (free milk, dried milk and vitamins and purchase of welfare food) by making provision for the application for vitamins to be made and evidence in respect of purchase of welfare food to be produced to the person responsible for the administration of welfare food at a clinic instead of applying to the clinic.

Regulation 3 amends regulation 4 of the principal Regulations (additional milk or dried milk for children in day care) by enabling the Secretary of State to request documentary evidence in support of a claim for reimbursement for the supply of both milk and dried milk to children in day care in place of a requirement to supply an invoice or receipt with any claim only for milk.

Regulation 4 amends regulation 5 of the principal Regulations (purchase of welfare food) by increasing the price paid for dried milk by a person entitled to purchase it from £3.30 to £3.40 for 900 grammes per week and enabling the responsible person at the clinic to require documentary evidence from that person that the child for whom they are caring has not attained the age of one year.

Regulation 5 amends regulation 7 of the principal Regulations (issue of milk tokens) to provide that any milk token issued may specify whether it is to be used for milk or dried milk, and enables the Secretary of State to require documentary evidence that a child beneficiary, who has not attained the age of one year and for whom a milk token is issued specifying dried milk, has not attained the age of one year.

Regulation 6 amends regulation 8 of the principal Regulations (use of milk tokens) to provide that milk or dried milk can only be obtained by a beneficiary who presents either a milk token which may be used to obtain either milk or dried milk or a milk token which specifies that it is to be used only to obtain milk, or a milk token which specifies that it is to be used only to obtain dried milk.

Regulation 7 amends Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (vitamins) to provide an alternative entitlement to vitamins for nursing mothers by adding 5×10 millilitre bottles of vitamin drops to their entitlement, and by substituting for the existing entitlement for expectant mothers an enitlement to 2x10 millilitre bottles of vitamin drops.