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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.
(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Welfare Food Regulations 1996.
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In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations (interpretation) the definition of “family credit” shall be deleted.
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(1) Regulation 7 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 regulation 7(1), the words “to family credit awarded with effect from a date falling before 5th October 1999 or” shall be deleted.
(3) In paragraph (1)(c) of regulation 7, the words “family credit or” shall be deleted; and for “£3.90” in that regulation, there shall be substituted “£4.05”.
(4) In regulation 7(1A), for “paragraph (1)” there shall be substituted “these Regulations”; and for “£70” there shall be substituted “£71”.
(5) In regulation 7(2)(a), for the words “family credit”, there shall be substituted the words, “working families' tax credit”.
(6) In regulation 7(4)(a), the words “to family credit awarded with effect from a date falling before 5th October 1999 or” shall be deleted.
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In regulation 8(1) (inability to purchase dried milk at a reduced price), the words, “family credit or” shall be deleted.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
Yvette Cooper
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health,
Department of Health
6th March 2001