2001 No. 758
FOOD

The Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2001

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for Health in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 13(3) and (4) of the Social Security Act 19881 and section 175(2) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 19922 and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

(2)

In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Welfare Food Regulations 19963.

Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations2.

In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations (interpretation) the definition of “family credit” shall be deleted.

Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations3.

(1)

Regulation 7 of the principal Regulations (purchase of dried milk at a reduced price) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2)

In regulation 7(1), the words “to family credit awarded with effect from a date falling before 5th October 1999 or” shall be deleted.

(3)

In paragraph (1)(c) of regulation 7, the words “family credit or” shall be deleted; and for “£3.90” in that regulation, there shall be substituted “£4.05”.

(4)

In regulation 7(1A), for “paragraph (1)” there shall be substituted “these Regulations”; and for “£70” there shall be substituted “£71”.

(5)

In regulation 7(2)(a), for the words “family credit”, there shall be substituted the words, “working families' tax credit”.

(6)

In regulation 7(4)(a), the words “to family credit awarded with effect from a date falling before 5th October 1999 or” shall be deleted.

Amendment of regulation 8(1) of the principal Regulations4.

In regulation 8(1) (inability to purchase dried milk at a reduced price), the words, “family credit or” shall be deleted.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Yvette Cooper
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health,
Department of Health
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Welfare Food Regulations 1996 (the principal Regulations).

Regulations 2, 3(1), (2), (3), (5) and (6) and 4 remove references to family credit in regulations 2, 7 and 8 of the principal Regulations, as family credit is no longer in existence.

Regulation 3(3) also amends regulation 7(1)(c) of the principal Regulations to increase the price payable for dried milk by a person entitled to purchase it at a reduced price, from £3.90 to £4.05 for 900 grammes per week.

Regulation 3(4) makes a minor drafting amendment to regulation 7(1A) of the principal Regulations, to ensure that any reference in those Regulations to entitlement to working families' tax credit means entitlement only if the appropriate maximum is not reduced beyond the amount specified; and increases from £70 to £71 the amount of any reduction in the appropriate maximum which may not to be exceeded if a person is to be regarded as entitled to working families' tax credit for the purposes of regulation 7.