The Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 1995

Made: 24th April 1995

Laid before Parliament: 1st May 1995

Coming into force: 22nd May 1995

The Secretary of State for Health in exercise of the powers conferred by section 13(3) and (4) of the Social Security Act 1988[^f00001] and section 175(2) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992[^f00002] (as applied by section 15A of the Social Security Act 1988) and all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

• (1) —These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 22nd May 1995.

• (2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Welfare Food Regulations 1988[^f00003].

Amendment of regulation 5 of the principal Regulations

2

In regulation 5(1) of the principal Regulations (purchase of welfare food) for “£3.50” there shall be substituted “£3.55”.

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

3

In Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (dried milk specified for the purpose of the Regulations)—

• (a) after the entry relating to Aptamil there shall be inserted the following entries—

• (b) for the entry in column (2) “Farley Health Products Ltd” in both places where it occurs there shall be substituted the entry “H J Heinz Company Ltd”.

Revocation

4

Regulation 4 of the Welfare Food Amendment Regulations 1994[^f00004] is hereby revoked.

Signed

Virginia Bottomley — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, — Department of Health — 24th April 1995

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Welfare Food Regulations 1988 (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulation 2 amends regulation 5 of the principal Regulations (purchase of welfare food) to increase the price paid for dried milk by a person entitled to purchase it from £3.50 to £3.55 for 900 grammes per week.

Regulation 3 amends Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations to specify two additional brands of dried milk and to take account of a change of manufacturer of two dried milk products.

Regulation 4 makes a consequential revocation.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1988 c. 7. Section 13 was amended by section 21(1) of, and paragraph 8(11) of Schedule 6 to, the Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27) and section 15A was inserted by paragraph 8(10) of that Schedule and amended by section 4 of, and paragraph 96 of Schedule 2 to, the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6).

[^f00002]: 1992 c. 4.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1988/536; the relevant amending instruments are S.I.1989/524, 1991/585, 1992/637 and 1994/2004.

[^f00004]: S.I. 1994/2004.