{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-foods-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/190",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Foods (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-foods-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "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”).\nRegulation 2(a) amends regulations 2(1)(b)(iii), 2(2)(aa), 2(2)(b)(iii), 2(3)(iv) (Free milk, dried milk and vitamins), 4(1A)(a) (Purchase of dried milk at a reduced price), 10(1)(iv) (Inability to obtain free vitamins) and paragraph 3(d) of Schedule 3A to the principal Regulations. It raises to £13,910 the figure for the income level that determines whether a person receiving Child Tax Credit but not Working Tax Credit and who meets other conditions is entitled to benefit under the Scheme.\nRegulation 2(b) further amends regulation 4 to raise to £15,050 the figure for the maximum income level that determines whether a person entitled to tax credits and who meets other conditions is entitled to purchase dried milk at a reduced price under the Scheme.\nRegulation 3 revokes previous amending Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/190/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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