2015 No. 1580
Food

The Welfare Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2015

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State, 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 20051, and section 175(3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 19922 makes the following Regulations.

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 1st October 2015.

Amendment of the Welfare Food Regulations 19962.

In regulation 20(3) of the Welfare Food Regulations 19963 for “two years” substitute “six months”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.

Jane Ellison
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Health
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of these Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Welfare Food Regulations 1996 (“the 1996 Regulations”) which provide for children under 5 in approved day care settings to receive a specified amount of free milk and for those day care setting to be reimbursed by the Secretary of State for the cost of that milk.

Regulation 2 amends regulation 20 of the 1996 Regulations in order to reduce (from two years to six months) the period for which reimbursement is to be made by the Secretary of State in relation to the cost of milk or dried milk supplied under the 1996 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.