{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-amendment-england-and-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-amendment-england-and-wales-regulations-2026/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/1092",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Food (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-amendment-england-and-wales-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 2 (interpretation)",
  "text": "In regulation 2(1)—\n(a) insert the following definitions in the appropriate places—\n““childcare”—\n(a) in relation to England, has the same meaning as in section 18 of the Childcare Act 2006;\n(b) in relation to Wales, means—\n(i) child minding or day care for children within the meaning of section 19(2) and (3) of the Children and Families (Wales) Measure 2010; or\n(ii) care provided to a child at a school which is not day care for the purposes of Part 2 of that Measure by virtue of article 14 of the Child Minding and Day Care Exceptions (Wales) Order 2010;\n“childcare provider” means a childcare provider specified in regulation 18(2);”;\n(b) omit the definitions of “day care”, “day care provider”, “exempt establishment”, “exempt school”, “registered child minder”, “registered day care provider”, and “school milk subsidy”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c. 21. Section 18(5)(a)(i) was substituted by section 44(4) of, and paragraph 19(2) of Schedule 1 to, the Children and Young Persons Act 2008 (c. 23) (“the 2008 Act”). Section 18(7)(a) was amended by section 95(1) of, and paragraph 21(a) of Schedule 9 to, the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2) (“the 2015 Act”). Section 18(7)(b) was amended by section 95(1) of, and paragraph 21(b) of Schedule 9 to, the 2015 Act. Section 18(7)(c) was amended by section 95(1) of, and paragraph 21(c) of Schedule 9 to, the 2015 Act. Section 18(8)(a) was amended by section 44(4) of, and paragraph 19(3)(a) of Schedule 1 to, and Schedule 4 to, the 2008 Act. Section 18(8)(b) was amended by section 44(4) of, and paragraph 19(3)(b) of Schedule 1 to, the 2008 Act. Section 18(8)(b) was also amended by S.I. 2010/813. Section 18(8)(ba) was inserted by S.I. 2010/813. Section 30 was amended in Wales by S.I. 2010/2582 (W. 216). Part 3, Chapter 2A was inserted by section 139(6) of, and paragraph 13 of Schedule 4 to, the Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2010 nawm 1. Amendments to this section have been made by articles 1(2), 3(a) and 3(b) of the Regulation of Child Minding and Day Care (Wales) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/98 (W. 47)). There are other amendments to this instrument but none are relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/2839 (W. 233). Article 14 was amended by S.I. 2021/933 (W. 213)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1092/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:46.749118+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."
}