{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1988/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1988/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/536",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Food Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Absence of beneficiary for less than a week",
  "text": "Where–\n(a) a beneficiary is absent from his usual place of residence for more than one day but less than 7 days during the period of validity of any milk token which a supplier has accepted from him; and\n(b) the supplier has supplied against the milk token some, but not all, of the requisite 7 pints or 4 litres,\nthe supplier shall, if the beneficiary so requests within the period of validity, forthwith pay or allow the beneficiary in respect of each pint, or as the case may be, each half litre not supplied a sum equal to the approved price.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/536/regulation/13",
    "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."
}