{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1996/schedule-4/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1996/schedule-4/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1434",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Food Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-food-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The percentage by which the approved price shall be reduced under regulation 17 is determined by—\n(a) ascertaining x, where x is the supplier’s welfare milk supply during the reference period expressed as a percentage of his total retail milk supply during that reference period;\n(b) determining the discount band specified in column 1 of the Table below by reference to the paragraph of column 2 into which x falls;\n(c) for the band determined under sub-paragraph (b) and each of the preceding bands specified in column 1 of the said Table, multiplying the relevant part of x in column 3 by the corresponding figure in column 4; and\n(d) dividing the sum of the figures calculated under sub-paragraph (c) by x.\nTable\n(1)\n(2)\n(3)\n(4)\nDiscount band\nWelfare milk during reference period as a percentage of total retail milk supply (x)\nRelevant part of x\nPercentage by which approved price reduced\n1\nup to and including 7.5 per cent.\nthe first 7.5 per cent.\n9\n2\nmore than 7.5 per cent. but not more than 8.5 per cent.\nthe next 1 per cent. or if less than 1 per cent. that part thereof\n8\n3\nmore than 8.5 per cent. but not more than 9.5 per cent.\nthe next 1 per cent. or if less than 1 per cent. that part thereof\n6\n4\nmore than 9.5 per cent. but not more than 10.5 per cent.\nthe next 1 per cent. or if less than 1 per cent. that part thereof\n5\n5\nmore than 10.5 per cent. but not more than 11.5 per cent.\nthe next 1 per cent. or if less than 1 per cent. that part thereof\n3\n6\nmore than 11.5 per cent.\nany percentage more than 11.5 per cent.\nnil",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 3 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/schedule/4/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}