{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1996/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1434",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Food Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Child under the age of one year—entitlement to free dried milk or milk",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3) and to the provisions as to milk tokens in Parts III and IV, a child in Great Britain other than a child who resides in an area specified in Schedule 1 to the Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2005, who is under the age of one year and who is a member of the family of a person who is entitled to—\n(a) income support, or\n(b) an income-based jobseeker’s allowance, or\n(c) child tax credit, provided that the relevant income of the person or persons to whom the award of child tax credit is made under section 14 of the Tax Credits Act 2002 is determined at the time of the award not to exceed £14,155, and the person is not entitled to working tax credit,\nis entitled to receive dried milk or milk for personal consumption, in accordance with these Regulations, free of charge.\n(2) A beneficiary’s entitlement under this regulation is to—\n(a) dried milk at the rate of 900 grammes per week; or\n(b) milk at the rate of seven 568 millilitre measures a week or, where milk is supplied in multiples of 500 millilitres only, eight 500 millilitre measures a week.\n(3) Milk to which a beneficiary is entitled under paragraph (2)(b) may be for consumption by the beneficiary’s mother if she is breast-feeding the child.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 revoked (with exceptions) (27.11.2006) by The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2818), regs. 1, 11(6)(7)(c) (with reg. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1) substituted (6.4.2003) by The Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/702), regs. 1(1), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4(1) inserted (28.11.2005) by The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3262), regs. 1, 16(b) (with reg. 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 4(1)(c) substituted (18.7.2003) by The Welfare Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1864), regs. 1(2), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sum in reg. 4(1)(c) substituted (6.4.2006) by The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/589), regs. 1(2), 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 27.6.1996, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1434/regulation/4",
    "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."
}