{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthy-start-scheme-and-welfare-food-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2020/regulation-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthy-start-scheme-and-welfare-food-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2020/regulation-31.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/267",
  "legislation_title": "The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/healthy-start-scheme-and-welfare-food-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/31",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The principal Regulations, as they applied immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations, continue to apply as if the amendments made by regulations 3 to 18, with the exception of regulations 9(c) and 17, had not been made in relation to a case where—\n(a) (i) a beneficiary seeks to exchange a voucher for Healthy Start food at a food outlet;\n(ii) a beneficiary has—\n(aa) prior to the coming into force of these Regulations, failed to receive a benefit as set out in regulation 10(1) of the principal Regulations; or\n(bb) failed to receive a benefit represented by a voucher in the circumstances set out in regulation 10(2) of the principal Regulations;\n(iii) a food outlet has accepted a voucher from a beneficiary and failed on that occasion to supply Healthy Start food to the beneficiary as provided for in regulation 13(3) of the principal Regulations; or\n(iv) a food outlet makes a claim for payment in relation to a voucher in accordance with the principal Regulations;\n(b) the voucher referred to in sub-paragraph (a)(i), (ii)(bb) and (iv) is in paper form; and\n(c) the food outlet referred to in sub-paragraph (a)(i), (iii) and (iv) was registered as a food outlet under regulation 12 of the principal Regulations prior to the coming into force of these Regulations.\n(2) The terms used in this regulation , with the exception of “Healthy Start food”, have the same meaning as in the principal Regulations as they applied immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations.\n(3) In this regulation, “Healthy Start food” has the same meaning as in the principal Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31(1) substituted (E.) (30.7.2020) by The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/665), regs. 1(1), 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 31(2) inserted (E.) (30.7.2020) by The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/665), regs. 1(1), 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 31(3) inserted (E.) (30.7.2020) by The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/665), regs. 1(1), 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 31 in force at 6.4.2020, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/267/regulation/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:32:33.594080+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."
}