(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Education (School Lunches) (Scotland) Regulations 2009 so as to prescribe universal credit (payable under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012) for the purposes of paragraphs (a)(iv) and (b)(iii) of section 53(3) of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980. The effect is that where a pupil is, or the pupil’s parents are, in receipt of universal credit and the pupil is receiving school lunches, the education authority must not charge for the lunches.