Explanatory note

These Regulations further amend the Welfare Foods Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988 (the principal Regulations).

Regulations 2, 3(1), (2), (4), and (5) and 4 remove references to family credit in regulations 1, 4 and 9 of the principal Regulations, as family credit is no longer in existence.

Regulation 3(2)(c) also amends regulation 4(1)(c) of the principal Regulations to increase the price payable for dried milk by a person entitled to purchase it at a reduced price, from £3·90 to £4·05 per 900 grams per week.

Regulation 3(3) amends regulation 4(1A) of the principal Regulations. It increases from £70 to £71 the amount of any reduction in the appropriate maximum which may not be exceeded if a person is to be regarded as entitled to working families' tax credit for the purposes of regulation 4(1).