{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthy-start-scheme-and-welfare-food-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-8A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthy-start-scheme-and-welfare-food-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-8A.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/8A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8A",
  "heading": "Provision of Healthy Start vitamins",
  "text": "(1) A health service body is—\n(a) in relation to England, an integrated care board, a local authority or NHS England, if it provides, or arranges for the provision of, maternity services or a child health clinic; and\n(aa) in relation to Wales, a NHS trust or Local Health Board that provides a maternity or child health clinic; ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) A health service body shall have the function of providing , or (in the case of an integrated care board or NHS England) arranging for the provision of, Healthy Start vitamins for beneficiaries.\n(3) A health service body (other than an integrated care board or NHS England) may make arrangements for a pharmacist or other person or body to supply Healthy Start vitamins for beneficiaries on its behalf.\n(3A) The arrangements made by an integrated care board or NHS England under paragraph (2) may be made with a pharmacist or other person or body.\n(4) Where a health service body makes arrangements under paragraph (2) or (3) it must inform beneficiaries where they may obtain Healthy Start vitamins.\n(5) A beneficiary who is entitled to Healthy Start vitamins must produce ... evidence of her entitlement to a person who supplies Healthy Start vitamins for beneficiaries.\n(6) For the purposes of paragraph (5), ... evidence of entitlement may consist of a letter from the Secretary of State that confirms the entitlement of the beneficiary to Healthy Start food and, if requested by the person who supplies the Healthy Start vitamins in respect of a beneficiary who is a child, ... evidence of the child’s age.\n(7) The Secretary of State shall pay a health service body (other than an integrated care board or NHS England) an amount equal to the cost of the Healthy Start vitamins that the health service body has provided (or secured the provision of) to a beneficiary.\n(8) In the case of an integrated care board—\n(a) the Secretary of State may pay the integrated care board an amount equal to the cost of the Healthy Start vitamins that the integrated care board has secured the provision of to a beneficiary, or\n(b) that cost may be met from the sums paid to the integrated care board under section 223G of the National Health Service Act 2006.\n(9) In the case of NHS England—\n(a) the Secretary of State may pay NHS England an amount equal to the cost of the Healthy Start vitamins that NHS England has secured the provision of to a beneficiary, or\n(b) that cost may be met from the sums paid to NHS England under section 223B of the National Health Service Act 2006.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 8A inserted (27.11.2006) by The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2818), regs. 1, 7 (with reg. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 8A 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": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 8A(1)(a)(aa) substituted for reg. 8A(1)(a) and word (1.4.2013) by The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 91(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (1.7.2022) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/634), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 1(1)(3) (with Sch. para. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (6.11.2023) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1071), reg. 1(1), Sch. para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8A(1)(a) inserted (E.W.) (6.4.2020) by The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/267), regs. 1(2), 11(1)(a) (with reg. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Reg. 8A(1)(b) and word omitted (E.W.) (6.4.2020) by virtue of The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/267), regs. 1(2), 11(1)(b) (with reg. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8A(2) inserted (1.4.2013) by The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 91(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8A(3) inserted (1.4.2013) by The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 91(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Reg. 8A(3A) inserted (1.4.2013) by The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 91(3)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8A(4) inserted (1.4.2013) by The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 91(3)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8A(5) omitted (E.W.) (6.4.2020) by virtue of The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/267), regs. 1(2), 11(2) (with reg. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8A(6) 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), 11(3)(a) (with reg. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Word in reg. 8A(6) omitted (E.W.) (6.4.2020) by virtue of The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/267), regs. 1(2), 11(3)(b) (with reg. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8A(7) inserted (1.4.2013) by The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 91(3)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Reg. 8A(8)(9) inserted (1.4.2013) by The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 91(3)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8A(8)(a) substituted (1.7.2022) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/634), regs. 1(2), 29(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8A(8)(b) substituted (1.7.2022) by The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/634), regs. 1(2), 29(3)(b)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3262/regulation/8A",
    "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."
}