The Welfare Foods (Best Start Foods) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021
In accordance with section 13(2) of the Social Security Act 1988, the Scottish Ministers have consulted the National Assembly for Wales.
Citation and commencement
1.
These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare Foods (Best Start Foods) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021 and come into force on 1 August 2021.
Amendments to the Welfare Foods (Best Start Foods) (Scotland) Regulations 2019
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3.
In regulation 10(1) (kinds of assistance)—
(a)
in sub-paragraph (a), for “£16,190” substitute “£16,480”,
(b)
in sub-paragraph (b)(i), for “£7,320” substitute “£7,500”,
(c)
in sub-paragraph (c), for “£311” substitute “£317”, and
(d)
in sub-paragraph (h), in both place where it occurs, for “£610” substitute “£625”.
4.
In regulation 13 (value of benefit)—
(a)
in paragraph (1), for “£4.25” substitute “£4.50”,
(b)
in paragraph (2)—
(i)
in sub-paragraph (a), for “£8.50” substitute “£9.00”,
(ii)
in sub-paragraph (b), for “£4.25” substitute “£4.50”, and
(c)
in paragraph (3), for “£8.50” substitute “£9.00”.
5.
In regulation 20(4) (transitional arrangements), for “£4.25” substitute “£4.50”.
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
These Regulations amend the Welfare Foods (Best Start Foods) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/193) (“the 2019 Regulations”) which make provision for a scheme to provide benefits for pregnant women, mothers and children. These Regulations provide for an increase in various thresholds and values of the benefits payable under the scheme set out in the 2019 Regulations.
Regulation 3 increases the thresholds below which qualifying forms of assistance allow relevant persons to qualify for the Best Start Foods scheme.
Regulations 4 and 5 increase the amounts of the various values at which Best Start Food benefits are paid.