The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2016

Statutory Instruments

2016 No. 985

Food

The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Amendment) Regulations 2016

Made

22nd September 2016

Laid before Parliament

11th October 2016

Coming into force

1st November 2016

The Secretary of State for Health makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 13(1), (3) and (4)(h) of the Social Security Act 1988(1) and section 175(3) and (4) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(2).

In accordance with section 13(2) of the Social Security Act 1988, the Secretary of State has consulted the Scottish Ministers and the Welsh Ministers(3).

(1)

1988 c.7. Section 13 of the Social Security Act 1988 (“the 1988 Act”) was substituted by section 185 of the Health and Social Care (Community Health Standards) Act 2003 (c.43), subject to savings made by the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards Act 2003 (Commencement) No. 7 Order 2005, S.I. 2005/2279. The power in section 13(1) to prescribe descriptions of food is exercisable by the Welsh Ministers in relation to the operation of schemes in Wales by virtue of section 13(6) of the 1988 Act; and by the Scottish Ministers in relation to the operation of Schemes in Scotland by virtue of the Schedule to the Scotland Act 1988 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) (No. 3) Order 2006, S.I. 2006/3258. For the definitions of “prescribed” and “regulations, see section 13(11) of the 1998 Act.

(2)

1992 c.4. Section 175(3) and (4) are applied by section 15A of the Social Security Act 1988 (c.7), which itself was inserted by section 21(1) of, and paragraph 8(10) of Schedule 6 to, the Social Security Act 1990 (c.27) and amended by section 4 of, and paragraph 96 of Schedule 2 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 (c.43).

(3)

Functions conferred or imposed on the National Assembly for Wales immediately before the first appointment of a First Minister under section 46 of the Government of Wales Act (c.32) by an enactment contained in an Act were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30(2) of Schedule 11 to that Act.