{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1988/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1988/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/536",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Food Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Suppliers of, and charges for, milk",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (4), a supplier who has accepted from any beneficiary a milk token for milk shall supply milk at the rate specified in regulation 3(4).\n(2) A supplier may accept a milk token for milk as part payment of the price of milk supplied to a beneficiary where the price of such milk exceeds the approved price on account of the designation of the milk supplied.\n(3) A supplier–\n(a) may accept a milk token from a beneficiary before the start of its period of validity; but\n(b) if he does so, shall on demand return to the beneficiary all milk tokens in respect of which no milk has been supplied.\n(4) The obligation on a supplier imposed by paragraph (1) does not apply where–\n(a) a milk token is returned before the start of its period of validity; or\n(b) the supplier is prevented from supplying milk because of circumstances outside his control.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/3",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Food Amendment Regulations 1990"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/536/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:09:21.236733+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."
}