{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1988/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1988/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/536",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Food Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Use of milk tokens",
  "text": "(1) A milk token–\n(a) may be used by a beneficiary to obtain milk as described in paragraph (2) or to obtain dried milk as described in paragraph (3); and\n(b) may not be used by a beneficiary in any other way.\n(2) A milk token may be presented within its period of validity to a supplier who has agreed to supply milk in exchange for it, to obtain 7 pints of, or, where the supplier supplies milk only in metric measure, 4 litres of, milk.\n(3) A milk token may be presented within its period of validity at a clinic to obtain 900 grammes of dried milk for a child who has not attained the age of 1 year.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/1105",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Food Amendment Regulations 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/1105",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Food Amendment Regulations 1993"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/536/regulation/8",
    "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."
}