{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthy-start-scheme-and-welfare-food-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthy-start-scheme-and-welfare-food-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3262",
  "legislation_title": "The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthy-start-scheme-and-welfare-food-amendment-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Healthy Start food and payments in lieu",
  "text": "(1) Healthy Start food is the food specified in Column 1 (category of food) of Schedule 3 as qualified in Column 2 (qualification) of that Schedule.\n(2) If the Secretary of State is satisfied that a beneficiary cannot use a voucher within a reasonable distance of beneficiary's home, the Secretary of State may, instead of issuing a voucher or credit, pay the beneficiary an amount equal to the value represented by the voucher or credit the beneficiary would otherwise receive.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 5(2) substituted (E.W.) (6.4.2020) by The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/267), regs. 1(2), 6 (with reg. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 5(2) revoked (S.) (31.3.2020) by The Welfare Foods (Best Start Foods) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/193), reg. 1(3), sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 28.11.2005, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3262/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:44:51.379830+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."
}