{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1996/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1996/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1434",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Food Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Milk or dried milk for children in day care",
  "text": "(1) ... ..., a child who is under the age of five years on each day that he is looked after for two hours or more, or is provided with day care for two hours or more, by any day care provider who is approved as a supplier in accordance with regulation 19, shall be entitled, free of charge—\n(a) if he has attained the age of one year, to 189 millilitres of milk or, where milk is supplied in containers of 200 millilitres only, to 200 millilitres of milk;\n(b) if he has not attained the age of one year, dried milk made up to provide 189 millilitres.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) a day care provider is—\n(a) a registered child minder;\n(b) a registered day care provider;\n(c) a local authority to the extent it is providing day care under section 18 of the Children Act 1989 or under section 12 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968;\n(d) an exempt school; or\n(e) an exempt establishment to the extent that day care is being provided to children as part of the activities of the establishment only because the children are children of persons carrying on or employed to work at that establishment.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 18(1) omitted (27.11.2006) by virtue of The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2818), regs. 1, 11(3) (with reg. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 18(1) deleted (28.11.2005) by The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3262), regs. 1, 18(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 18(1)(b) substituted (E.W.) (6.4.2020) by The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/267), regs. 1(2), 21"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 18 in force at 27.6.1996, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales only; a separate version has been created for Scotland only"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "189 millilitres is equivalent to a third of a pint."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1968 c. 49."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/1092",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Food (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/1092",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Food (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/1092",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Food (Amendment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1434/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:42:48.088219+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."
}