{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1996/regulation-21A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1996/regulation-21A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1434",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Food Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/21A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21A",
  "heading": "Functions of the NHS Business Services Authority",
  "text": "(1) When requested by the Secretary of State, the NHS Business Services Authority shall have the function, on behalf of the Secretary of State, of—\n(a) carrying out administrative functions relating to the supply of milk or dried milk by a day care provider approved as a supplier under Part V;\n(b) requesting and receiving information referred to in regulation 21;\n(c) carrying out administrative functions relating to the approval of suppliers under Part V;\n(d) administering the Nursery Milk Scheme.\n(2) In paragraph (1) —\n(a) the “NHS Business Services Authority” means the authority established by the NHS Business Services Authority (Awdurdod Gwasanaethau Busnes y GIG) (Establishment and Constitution) Order 2005;\n(b) the “Nursery Milk Scheme” means the scheme set out in these Regulations..",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 21A inserted (27.11.2017) by The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1032), regs. 1, 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 21A(1)(c)(d) inserted (E.W.) (6.4.2020) by The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/267), regs. 1(2), 22(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 21A(2)(a) formed from words in reg. 21A(2) (E.W.) (6.4.2020) by The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/267), regs. 1(2), 22(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 21A(2)(b) inserted (E.W.) (6.4.2020) by The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/267), regs. 1(2), 22(b)"
    },
    {
      "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"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word 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/21A",
    "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."
}