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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-amendment-regulations-1989/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-amendment-regulations-1989/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/524",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Food Amendment Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-amendment-regulations-1989",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Welfare Food Regulations 1988 (the 1988 Regulations).\nRegulation 2 increases the price of dried milk to be paid by those entitled to purchase it under regulation 5 of the 1988 Regulations from £2.55 to £2.70. The increase is consequent on the annual up-rating of benefits under section 63 of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50).\nRegulation 3 amends regulation 6 of the 1988 Regulations so as to allow milk obtained for a child under 30 weeks old being suckled by its mother, to be consumed by the mother.\nRegulation 4 adds two additional brands of dried milk to the list of dried milks specified for the purposes of the 1988 Regulations.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/524/note",
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  "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."
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