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The Welfare Foods (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 No. 139
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2001 No. 139
WELFARE FOODS
The Welfare Foods (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001
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Made |
29th March 2001 | |
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Coming into operation |
1st April 2001 | |
The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety[
1], in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 13(3) and (4) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1988[
2] and section 171(2) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992[
3] and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.
- (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[
4].
Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations
2.
In regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations (Citation, commencement and interpretation) the definition of "family credit" shall be deleted.
Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations
3.
- (1) Regulation 4[
5] 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)".
Amendment of regulation 9 of the principal Regulations
4.
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.
L.S.
W. B. Smith
Assistant Secretary
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations further amend the Welfare Foods Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988 (the principal Regulations).
Regulations 2, 3(1), (2), (4), and (5) and 4 remove references to family credit in regulations 1, 4 and 9 of the principal Regulations, as family credit is no longer in existence.
Regulation 3(2)(
c) also amends regulation 4(1)(
c) of the principal Regulations to increase the price payable for dried milk by a person entitled to purchase it at a reduced price, from £3·90 to £4·05 per 900 grams per week.
Regulation 3(3) amends regulation 4(1A) of the principal Regulations. It increases from £70 to £71 the amount of any reduction in the appropriate maximum which may not be exceeded if a person is to be regarded as entitled to working families' tax credit for the purposes of regulation 4(1).
Notes:
[1]
See S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1); Article 3(6)back
[2]
S.I. 1988/594 (N.I. 2); Article 13(4) was amended by section 4 of and paragraph 35(1) of Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 9)back
[3]
1992 c. 7; section 171(2) to (5) is applied by Article 15A of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, which Article was inserted by Article 22(1) of and paragraph 6(9) of Schedule 6 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1511 (N.I. 15)), and amended by section 4 of and paragraph 35(4) and (5) of Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 9)back
[4]
S.R. 1988 No. 137, the relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1991 No. 81, S.R. 1993 No. 219 and S.R. 1999 No. 397back
[5]
Regulation 4(1) and (1A) is substituted by Regulation 3 of S.R. 1999 No. 397back
ISBN
0-337-05370-7
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© Crown copyright 2001 |
Prepared
20 April 2001
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