PART 5Health

Amendment of the Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2005

10.—(1) The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2005(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation) after the definition of “income-based jobseeker’s allowance” insert—

“income-related employment and support allowance” means an income-related allowance payable under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 (employment and support allowance); .

(3) In regulation 3(3)(a)(2) (entitlement to benefit) after sub-paragraph (iii) insert—

or

(iv)an income-related employment and support allowance;.

(4) In Schedule 2(3) (application for benefit) in paragraph 4(1)(a)—

(a)after sub-paragraph (ii) omit “or”;

(b)at the end of sub-paragraph (iii) for “and” substitute—

or

(iv)an income-related employment and support allowance; and.

(2)

Regulation 3(3) was amended by S.I. 2006/2818 and S.I. 2008/408.

(3)

Schedule 2 was amended by S.I. 2008/408.