The Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Statutory Instruments

2015 No. 917

Food

The Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Made

25th March 2015

Laid before Parliament

27th March 2015

Coming into force

1st July 2015

The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 13 of the Social Security Act 1988 as saved by the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Savings) Order 2005(1), and section 175(3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(2) makes the following Regulations.

Citation and Commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 1st July 2015.

Amendment of the Welfare Food Regulations 1996

2.—(1) The Welfare Food Regulations 1996(3) are amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (interpretation), for the definition of “dried milk” substitute—

““dried milk” means any infant formula specified in Schedule 1;”.

(3) For Schedule 1 substitute the following—

Regulation 2(1)

“SCHEDULE 1 Dried Milk Specified for the Purpose of the Regulations

• SMA First Infant Milk powder

• SMA Comfort Easy to Digest Infant Milk powder

• SMA Extra Hungry Infant Milk powder

• Cow & Gate First Infant Milk powder

• Cow & Gate Comfort powder

• Cow & Gate Infant Milk for Hungrier Babies powder

• HiPP Organic Combiotic First Infant Milk powder

• HiPP Organic Combiotic Hungry Infant Milk powder

• Aptamil First Milk from birth powder

• Aptamil Comfort from birth powder

• Aptamil Hungry Milk from birth powder”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Dan Poulter

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of Health

25th March 2015

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of these Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Welfare Food Regulations 1996 (“the 1996 Regulations”).

Regulation 2: amends Schedule 1 to the 1996 Regulations in order to change the list of dried milks specified in that Schedule for the purpose of those Regulations and makes a consequential amendment to the definition of dried milk contained in regulation 2(1) of those Regulations.

No impact assessment has been prepared in relation to this instrument as it has no or minimal impact on business, charities, voluntary bodies or the public sector. An explanatory memorandum is available alongside this instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk or copies may be obtained from Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS.

(1)

c. 7. Section 13 was substituted by section 185(1) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43) (see the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement) (No. 7) Order (S.I. 2005/2278 (C. 95)). Section 13, as in force prior to that substitution, was saved by the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Savings) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2279) for the purpose of enabling provision to be made for amending or revoking the Welfare Food Regulations 1996. Section 13, as saved, was amended by section 21(1)and (2) of, and paragraph 8(11)(a) of Schedule 6 and Schedule 7 to the Social Security Act 1990 (c.27) and by section 4 of, and Schedule 2, paragraph 94 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6).

(2)

c. 4. Section 175(3) and (4) is applied to the Social Security Act 1988 by section 15A of the Social Security Act 1988 which was inserted by Schedule 6, paragraph 8(10) to the Social Security Act 1990 (c.27) and was amended by Schedule 2, paragraph 96 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6) and section 185(2) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003.

(3)

S.I. 1996/1434: Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 2003/702: there are no other relevant amending instruments.