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Statutory Instruments
Food
Made
25th March 2015
Laid before Parliament
27th March 2015
Coming into force
1st July 2015
The Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 13 of the Social Security Act 1988 as saved by the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Savings) Order 2005(1), and section 175(3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(2) makes the following Regulations.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 1st July 2015.
2.-(1) The Welfare Food Regulations 1996(3) are amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (interpretation), for the definition of "dried milk" substitute-
""dried milk" means any infant formula specified in Schedule 1;".
(3) For Schedule 1 substitute the following-
Regulation 2(1)
SMA First Infant Milk powder
SMA Comfort Easy to Digest Infant Milk powder
SMA Extra Hungry Infant Milk powder
Cow & Gate First Infant Milk powder
Cow & Gate Comfort powder
Cow & Gate Infant Milk for Hungrier Babies powder
HiPP Organic Combiotic First Infant Milk powder
HiPP Organic Combiotic Hungry Infant Milk powder
Aptamil First Milk from birth powder
Aptamil Comfort from birth powder
Aptamil Hungry Milk from birth powder".
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health.
Dan Poulter
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department of Health
25th March 2015
(This note is not part of these Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Welfare Food Regulations 1996 ("the 1996 Regulations").
Regulation 2: amends Schedule 1 to the 1996 Regulations in order to change the list of dried milks specified in that Schedule for the purpose of those Regulations and makes a consequential amendment to the definition of dried milk contained in regulation 2(1) of those Regulations.
No impact assessment has been prepared in relation to this instrument as it has no or minimal impact on business, charities, voluntary bodies or the public sector. An explanatory memorandum is available alongside this instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk or copies may be obtained from Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS.
c. 7. Section 13 was substituted by section 185(1) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 43) (see the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Commencement) (No. 7) Order (S.I. 2005/2278 (C. 95)). Section 13, as in force prior to that substitution, was saved by the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (Savings) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2279) for the purpose of enabling provision to be made for amending or revoking the Welfare Food Regulations 1996. Section 13, as saved, 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 by section 4 of, and Schedule 2, paragraph 94 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6).
c. 4. Section 175(3) and (4) is applied to the Social Security Act 1988 by section 15A of the Social Security Act 1988 which was inserted by Schedule 6, paragraph 8(10) to the Social Security Act 1990 (c.27) and was amended by Schedule 2, paragraph 96 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6) and section 185(2) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003.
S.I. 1996/1434: Schedule 1 was amended by S.I. 2003/702: there are no other relevant amending instruments.
