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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare Foods (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2001.
(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Welfare Foods Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988.
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In regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations (Citation, commencement and interpretation) the definition of “family credit” shall be deleted.
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(1) Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations (purchase of dried milk at a reduced price) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In paragraph (1):
(a) the words “to family credit awarded with effect from a date falling before 5th October 1999 or” shall be deleted;
(b) the words “family credit or” shall be deleted;
(c) for “£3·90” there shall be substituted “£4·05”.
(3) In paragraph (1A), for “£70” there shall be substituted “£71”.
(4) In paragraph (2), for the words “family credit”, there shall be substituted the words “working families' tax credit for the purposes of paragraph (1)”.
(5) In paragraph (4)(a), for the words “to family credit awarded with effect from a date falling before 5th October 1999 or”, there shall be substituted the words, “working families' tax credit for the purposes of paragraph (1)”.
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In regulation 9(1) (inability to purchase dried milk at a reduced price), the words, “family credit”, shall be deleted.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 29th March 2001.
W. B. Smith
Assistant Secretary
