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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-foods-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2001/139",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Foods (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-foods-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese Regulations further amend the Welfare Foods Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988 (the principal Regulations).\nRegulations 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.\nRegulation 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.\nRegulation 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).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/139/note",
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  },
  "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."
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