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The Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2001

S.I. 2001/758 · Made 6 March 2001

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Made 6th March 2001

Laid before Parliament 7th March 2001

Coming into force 1st April 2001

The Secretary of State for Health in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 13(3) and (4) of the Social Security Act 1988f1 and section 175(2) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992f2 and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1988 c. 7. Section 13 was amended by section 21(1) of, and paragraph 8(11) of Schedule 6 to, the Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27).

f2

1992 c. 4. Section 175(2) to (5) is applied by section 15A of the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7) which section was inserted by section 21(1) of, and paragraph 8(10) of Schedule 6 to the Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27) and amended by section 4 of, and paragraph 96 of Schedule 2 to, the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6).

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations
  3. 3Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations
  4. 4Amendment of regulation 8(1) of the principal Regulations
  5. Signature
  6. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

(2)

In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Welfare Food Regulations 1996f1.

2Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations (interpretation) the definition of “family credit” shall be deleted.

3Amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations

(1)

Regulation 7 of the principal Regulations (purchase of dried milk at a reduced price) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2)

In regulation 7(1), the words “to family credit awarded with effect from a date falling before 5th October 1999 or” shall be deleted.

(3)

In paragraph (1)(c) of regulation 7, the words “family credit or” shall be deleted; and for “£3.90” in that regulation, there shall be substituted “£4.05”.

(4)

In regulation 7(1A), for “paragraph (1)” there shall be substituted “these Regulations”; and for “£70” there shall be substituted “£71”.

(5)

In regulation 7(2)(a), for the words “family credit”, there shall be substituted the words, “working families' tax credit”.

(6)

In regulation 7(4)(a), the words “to family credit awarded with effect from a date falling before 5th October 1999 or” shall be deleted.

4Amendment of regulation 8(1) of the principal Regulations

In regulation 8(1) (inability to purchase dried milk at a reduced price), the words, “family credit or” shall be deleted.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Yvette Cooper

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health,

Department of Health

6th March 2001

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Welfare Food Regulations 1996 (the principal Regulations).

Regulations 2, 3(1), (2), (3), (5) and (6) and 4 remove references to family credit in regulations 2, 7 and 8 of the principal Regulations, as family credit is no longer in existence.

Regulation 3(3) also amends regulation 7(1)(c) of the principal Regulations to increase the price payable for dried milk by a person entitled to purchase it at a reduced price, from £3.90 to £4.05 for 900 grammes per week.

Regulation 3(4) makes a minor drafting amendment to regulation 7(1A) of the principal Regulations, to ensure that any reference in those Regulations to entitlement to working families' tax credit means entitlement only if the appropriate maximum is not reduced beyond the amount specified; and increases from £70 to £71 the amount of any reduction in the appropriate maximum which may not to be exceeded if a person is to be regarded as entitled to working families' tax credit for the purposes of regulation 7.