Regulation 5 Healthy Start vitamins and payments in lieuF1I1

After regulation 5 of the principal Regulations, insert—

“Healthy Start vitamins and payments in lieu

5A.

(1)

Healthy Start vitamins are tablets or vitamin drops containing vitamins appropriate for the beneficiary who receives them.

(2)

If the Secretary of State is satisfied that a person entitled to Healthy Start vitamins has not received them for a period as a result of an act or omission on the part of the Secretary of State or a health service body (“the missing period”) she shall pay the beneficiary an amount equal to the cost of purchasing the prescribed number or amount of Healthy Start vitamins for the missing period.”