The Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 550

FOOD

The Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2002

Made

5th March 2002

Laid before Parliament

11th March 2002

Coming into force

1st April 2002

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 1988(1) and section 175(2) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(2) and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Welfare Food Regulations 1996(3).

Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations

2.—(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 paragraph 7(1)(c), for “£4.05”, there shall be substituted “£4.10”; and

(3) In paragraph 7(1A), for “£71” there shall be substituted “£72.20”.

Revocations

3.  The following Regulations are revoked—

• The Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 1997(4)

• The Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 1998(5)

• The Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 1999(6)

• The Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2001(7).

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Yvette Cooper

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of Health

5th March 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

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

Regulation 2(2) amends regulation 7(1)(c) of the principal Regulations to increase the purchase price of 900 grammes of dried milk by 5 pence to £4.10.

Regulation 2(3) amends regulation 7(1A) to increase from £71 to £72.20 the amount of the reduction in the appropriate maximum not to be exceeded to establish entitlement to working families' tax credit for the purposes of regulation 7(1).

Regulation 3 revokes previous amending Regulations.

(1)

1988 c. 7. Section 13 was amended by section 21(1) of, and paragraph 8(11) of Schedule 6 to, the Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27).

(2)

1992 c. 4. Section 175(2) to (5) is applied by section 15A of the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7) which section was inserted by section 21(1) of, and paragraph 8(10) of Schedule 6 to the Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27) and amended by section 4 of, and paragraph 96 of Schedule 2 to, the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6).

(3)

S.I. 1996/1434. Previous amending instruments are revoked by regulation 3.

(4)

S.I. 1997/857.

(5)

S.I. 1998/691.

(6)

S.I. 1999/2561.

(7)

S.I. 2001/758.