{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthy-start-scheme-and-welfare-food-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthy-start-scheme-and-welfare-food-amendment-regulations-2005/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Use of voucher",
  "text": "(1) A beneficiary may only use a voucher to purchase Healthy Start food.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a voucher issued to a beneficiary may be used only by the beneficiary for whom it was issued.\n(3) A voucher issued to a beneficiary who is a child who is breast-fed by her mother may be used to purchase Healthy Start food for consumption by the mother.\n(4) No person shall buy or sell or otherwise use—\n(a) a voucher; ...\n(b) Healthy Start food purchased with a voucher;\n(c) Healthy Start vitamins supplied under these Regulations to a beneficiary;\nexcept in accordance with these Regulations.\n(5) Where a voucher issued to a beneficiary has not been used for a period of 16 consecutive weeks the Secretary of State may cancel the voucher.\n(6) Where a voucher has been cancelled under paragraph (5) the beneficiary ceases to be entitled to benefit under these Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(1) 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), 12(1) (with reg. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(3) 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), 12(2) (with reg. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 9(4) omitted (27.11.2006) by The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2818), regs. 1, 8(a) (with reg. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 9(4)(b) 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), 12(3) (with reg. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 9(4)(c) inserted (27.11.2006) by The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2818), regs. 1, 8(b) (with reg. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 9(5)(6) 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), 12(4) (with reg. 31)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in force at 28.11.2005, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales only; a separate version has been created for Scotland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3262/regulation/9",
    "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."
}