Amendment of the Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2005
2.—(1) The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2005(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 3 (entitlement to benefit), in paragraph (2), for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—
“(b)Healthy Start vitamins for every four weeks of entitlement.”.
(3) In regulation 5A (Healthy Start vitamins and payments in lieu)—
(a)in paragraph (1), for “tablets or vitamin drops containing vitamins” substitute “products containing vitamins, of a form and quantity, which the Secretary of State has determined are”;
(b)in paragraph (2), omit “prescribed number or amount of”.
(4) After regulation 7 insert—
“Functions of the NHS Business Services Authority
7A.—(1) The NHS Business Services Authority shall have the function of entering into and managing, on behalf of the Secretary of State, framework agreements, contracts and arrangements with persons who—
(a)manufacture Healthy Start vitamins;
(b)store Healthy Start vitamins; and
(c)make arrangements for, or in connection with, the distribution and supply of Healthy Start vitamins.
(2) When requested by the Secretary of State, the NHS Business Services Authority shall have the function, on behalf of the Secretary of State, of—
(a)carrying out administrative functions relating to the supply of Healthy Start food and Healthy Start vitamins;
(b)requesting and receiving information referred to in regulation 15.
(3) In this regulation, “NHS Business Services Authority” means the authority established by the NHS Business Services Authority (Awdurdod Gwasanaethau Busnes y GIG) (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2005(2).”.
S.I. 2005/3262. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2006/2818 and 2016/985.