Regulation 5 Amendment of the Welfare Foods (Best Start Foods) (Scotland) Regulations 2019

Regulation 9 of the Welfare Foods (Best Start Foods) (Scotland) Regulations 2019^f1 (residence requirement) is amended as follows.

After paragraph (2)(ac) insert—

“(ad)

a person who was residing in Sudan before 15 April 2023, left Sudan in connection with the violence which rapidly escalated on 15 April 2023 in Khartoum and across Sudan and—

(i)

has been granted leave in accordance with immigration rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971,

(ii)

has a right of abode in the United Kingdom within the meaning given in section 2 of that Act, or

(iii)

does not require leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom in accordance with section 3ZA of that Act”.