Statutory Instruments
2005 No. 688
FOOD
The Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2005
Made
10th March 2005
Laid before Parliament
16th March 2005
Coming into force
6th April 2005
The Secretary of State for Health in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 13(3) of the Social Security Act 1988( 1 ), 175(2) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992( 2 ), and all other powers enabling him 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 2005.
(2) These Regulations shall come into force on 6th April 2005.
(3) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Welfare Food Regulations 1996( 3 ).
Amendment of regulations 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and Schedule 2A to the principal Regulations
2. The principal Regulations are amended as follows:—
(a) for the sum of “£13,480” wherever it appears, there is substituted “£13,910”;
(b) in regulation 7 (purchase of dried milk at a reduced price) in paragraphs (1)(a) and (1A)(a), for the sum of “£14,600”, there is substituted “£15,050”.
Revocations
3. The following Regulations are revoked:—
(a) The Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2004( 4 );
(b) The Welfare Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2004( 5 ).
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Melanie Johnson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
10th March 2005
1988 (c. 7) . Section 13 was amended by section 21(1) and (2) of, and paragraph 8(11)(a) of Schedule 6 and Schedule 7 to, the Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27) , and section 4 of, and Schedule 2, paragraph 94 of the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6) . Section 13 is also amended by section 185 of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43) ; however section 185 is not yet in force.
1992 (c. 4) . Section 175(2) to (5) is applied by section 15A of the Social Security Act 1988 (c. 7) which section was inserted by section 21(1) of, and paragraph 8(10) of Schedule 6 to, the Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27) and amended by section 4 of, and paragraph 96 of Schedule 2 to, the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6) .
S.I. 1996/1434 , as amended by the Welfare Food (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2004, S.I. 2004/2311 , and the Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2004, S.I. 2004/723 . Previous amending instruments were revoked by regulation 6 of S.I. 2004/723 .
S.I. 2004/723 .
S.I. 2004/2311 .