{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthy-start-scheme-and-welfare-food-amendment-no-2-regulations-2006/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthy-start-scheme-and-welfare-food-amendment-no-2-regulations-2006/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2818",
  "legislation_title": "The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthy-start-scheme-and-welfare-food-amendment-no-2-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) Any person other than a child over the age of four, who, at the date of coming into force of these Regulations, is—\n(a) specified in regulation 3(2) or 4 of the 1996 Regulations as entitled to and is in receipt of milk or dried milk in accordance with regulation 3 or 4 of the 1996 Regulations shall be treated as a person entitled to Healthy Start food under the principal Regulations; or\n(b) specified in regulation 5(2) of the 1996 Regulations as entitled to receive vitamins for personal consumption shall be treated as a person entitled to Healthy Start vitamins under the principal Regulations.\n(2) Where a beneficiary described in regulation 12(1) of the 1996 Regulations has applied to the Department of Health but her application has not been determined at the date of the coming into force of these Regulations—\n(a) the Secretary of State shall determine the application in accordance with regulation 10(4) of the principal Regulations; and\n(b) regulation 10(4)(a) of the principal Regulations shall for this purpose be applied as if for the word “voucher” there were substituted “milk token”.\n(3) If a person described in regulation 12(1) of the 1996 Regulations has not applied to the Department of Health before the coming into force of these Regulations—\n(a) she may instead make an application to the Secretary of State;\n(b) that application shall be determined under regulation 10(4) of the principal Regulations; and\n(c) regulation 10(4)(a) of the principal Regulations shall be applied for this purpose as if for the word “voucher” there were substituted “milk token”.\n(4) A person described in regulation 15(1) of the 1996 Regulations as a beneficiary who is unable to find a supplier willing to supply milk in exchange for a milk token shall—\n(a) be treated as a beneficiary described at regulation 10(2)(b) of the principal Regulations; and\n(b) regulation 10(4) of the principal Regulations shall apply to her as if any reference to a voucher in regulation 10(4)(c) were a reference to a milk token.\n(5) Where a claim has been made under regulation 16(2) of the 1996 Regulations before the coming into force of these Regulations, regulation 16(2) shall apply to such a claim as if the amendment made by regulation 11(2) of these Regulations had not been made.\n(6) Notwithstanding the coming into force of these Regulations, the functions of the Secretary of State of—\n(a) reimbursing a Primary Care Trust, NHS trust, NHS foundation trust, Local Health Board or Health Board for tokens exchanged for dried milk, and\n(b) paying suppliers’ invoices for the supply of vitamins to a Primary Care Trust, NHS trust, NHS foundation trust, Local Health Board or Health Board,\nin connection with the 1996 Regulations shall continue.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 in force at 27.11.2006, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2818/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:18:00.286260+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}