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These Regulations further amend the Welfare Food Regulations 1996 (“the principal Regulations”).
Regulation 2 adds new entries to Schedule 6 to the principal Regulations (enactments applied for the purposes of these Regulations). The enactments specified are modified as indicated pursuant to regulation 22 of the principal Regulations (application of enactments). The modifications enable information held by the Secretary of State, and which relates to social security, to be supplied to the Secretary of State for Health for use in the administration of a scheme made for the purposes of section 13 of the Social Security Act 1988 (schemes for distribution etc. of welfare foods). It also specifies a civil servant in the Department of Health as a person who will be guilty of an offence if he discloses without lawful authority information acquired in the course of his employment.
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