2013 No. 2021 (W. 199)
Education, Wales

The Free School Lunches and Milk (Universal Credit) (Wales) Order 2013

Made
Laid before the National Assembly for Wales
Coming into force
The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 512ZB(4)(a)(ai), 512ZB(4)(b)(ai) and 568 of the Education Act 19961, and now vested in them2, make the following Order:

Title, commencement, application and interpretation1.

(1)

The title of this Order is the Free School Lunches and Milk (Universal Credit) (Wales) Order 2013 and it comes into force on 6 September 2013.

(2)

This Order applies in relation to Wales.

(3)

In this Order —

“the 1996 Act” (“Deddf 1996”) means the Education Act 1996; and

“universal credit” (“credyd cynhwysol”) means universal credit under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.3

Prescribed circumstances: receipt of universal credit2.

(1)

The circumstances that are prescribed for the purposes of section 512ZB(4)(a)(ai) of the 1996 Act are that C’s parent is in receipt of universal credit on or after 6 September 2013.4

(2)

The circumstances that are prescribed for the purposes of section 512ZB(4)(b)(ai) of the 1996 Act are that C is in receipt of universal credit on or after 6 September 2013.

Huw Lewis
Minister for Education and Skills, one of the Welsh Ministers
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order prescribes, for the purposes of section 512ZB of the Education Act 1996, that where a person or their parent is in receipt of universal credit on or after 6 September 2013, they are within section 512ZB(4).

Persons within section 512ZB(4) are eligible for free school lunches and milk when a request has been made by them (or on their behalf) that these be provided free of charge.