{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1988/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1988/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/536",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Food Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Purchase of welfare food",
  "text": "(1) Any person who is in receipt of family credit\nbut who–\n(a) is not a beneficiary, and\n(b) is caring for a child who has not attained the age of 1 year and who is a member of the family for which he is in receipt of family credit\nshall be entitled to purchase at any clinic, on behalf of each such child, at a price of £2.55, 900 grammes of dried milk per week for consumption by each such child.\n(2) Entitlement under paragraph (1) shall be subject to application being made to a clinic, supported by documentary evidence of entitlement to family credit, whether in the form of an order book or otherwise.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4), a person entitled under paragraph (1) shall not seek to purchase dried milk from a clinic pursuant to this regulation at a rate greater than that specified in that paragraph.\n(4) Notwithstanding paragraph (3) a person may purchase dried milk either up to four weeks in arrears or four weeks in advance of the application to purchase provided he satisfies the clinic as to his entitlement to receive family credit for the weeks for which the dried milk is purchased.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/524",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Food Amendment Regulations 1989"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/1105",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Food Amendment Regulations 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/637",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Food Amendment Regulations 1992"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2004",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Food Amendment Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/1143",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 1995"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/571",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Food Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1990"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/585",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Food Amendment Regulations 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/536/regulation/5",
    "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."
}