Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare Food Amendment Regulations 1991 and shall come into force for the purpose of regulation 2 on 1st April 1991 and for all other purposes on 9th April 1991.

(2) In these Regulations "the principal Regulations" means the Welfare Food Regulations 1988(2).

Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations

2. In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations (interpretation) in the definition of "clinic" for the words from ", the sale" to "Charging) Regulations 1976" there shall be substituted "or an NHS trust (within the meaning of Part I of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990)"(3).

Amendment of regulations 5 and 10 of the principal Regulations

3.-(1) In regulation 5(1) of the principal Regulations (purchase of welfare food) for "£2.85" there shall be substituted "£3.10".

(2) In regulation 10(2) of the principal Regulations (inability to purchase dried milk at a reduced price)-

(a)for "£2.85" where it first appears there shall be substituted "the price at which the applicant would have purchased the dried milk under regulation 5 but for the failure"; and

(b)for "£2.85" where it appears for the second time there shall be substituted "that latter price".

Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations

4. In Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (dried milk specified for the purpose of the Regulations)-

(a)the following entries shall be deleted-

(b)after the entry relating to Milumil there shall be inserted-

Revocations

5. Regulation 2 of the Welfare Food Amendment Regulations 1989(4), and the Welfare Food Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1990(5) are hereby revoked.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Welfare Food Regulations 1988 ("the principal Regulations").

Regulation 2 amends the definition of clinic for England and Wales to include a clinic operated by an NHS trust.

Regulation 3 increases the price of dried milk payable by persons entitled to purchase it under the principal Regulations from £2.85 to £3.10 and makes an associated amendment in respect of the amount payable by the Secretary of State where through his act or omission a person is unable to purchase dried milk at a reduced price. The increase is consequent on the annual uprating of benefits under section 63 of the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50).

Regulation 4 removes five brands of dried milk from the list of dried milks specified for the purposes of the principal Regulations and adds two additional brands to that list.

Regulation 5 revokes previous regulations the provisions of which are superseded by Regulation 3.