Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
1997 No. 461

WELFARE FOODS
The Welfare Foods (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Made
17th October 1997

Coming into operation
24th November 1997

The Department of Health and Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 13(3) and (4) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1988(1) and section 171(2) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(2) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare Foods (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 24th November 1997.

Amendment of the Welfare Foods Regulations

2.—(1) The Welfare Foods Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988(3) shall be amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) In regulation 3(2) (additional milk or dried milk for children in day care) after sub-paragraph (b) the following sub-paragraph shall be inserted—

“(c)a person who receives a child into a nursery school under the management of or assisted by the local Education and Library Board.”

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health and Social Services on

L.S.
W. B. Smith
Assistant Secretary
17th October 1997.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
These Regulations further amend the Welfare Foods Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988 to enable local Education and Library Board controlled premises to participate in the Welfare Milk Scheme.


(1)
S.I. 1988/594 (N.I. 2)

(2)
1992 c. 7; Section 171(2) to (5) is applied by Article 15A of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1511 (N.I. 15)), which Article was inserted by Article 22(1) of and paragraph 6(9) of Schedule 6 to that Order and amended by Section 4 of and paragraph 35(4) of Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 9)

(3)
S.R. 1988 No. 137; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1990 No. 363 and S.R. 1993 No. 219