The Healthy Start Scheme and Day Care Food Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Day Care Food Scheme Interpretation

22.—(1) In the Day Care food scheme—

“Education and Library Board” means a Board established under Article 3 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(1);

“Day Care food” means milk or infant formula;

“handicapped child” means a child who has attained the age of 5 years but has not attained the age of 16 years and for whom an Education and Library Board is maintaining a statement of special educational needs within the meaning of Article 16 of the Education (Northern Ireland) Order 1996(2), and who is not a registered pupil at a school.

“infant formula” means a food based on cow’s milk intended for particular nutritional use from birth by infants in good health, and satisfying by itself the nutritional requirements of such infants;

“milk” means liquid cow’s milk including long-life, pasteurised or ultra heat treated varieties of milk, but not milk to or from which chemicals, vitamins, flavours or colours have been added or removed;

“the 1988 Regulations” means the Welfare Foods Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988(3);

“the 1995 Order” means the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(4);

“voluntary organisation” means any association carrying on or proposing to carry on any activities otherwise than for the purpose of gain by the association or by individual members thereof.

(2) Where any provision of the Day Care Food scheme requires or enables anything to be done by, or in respect of, a beneficiary and that beneficiary is either a child who has not attained the age of 5 years or a handicapped child, the provision shall be deemed to refer to a parent with parental responsilbilities for the child, or the child’s guardian or the person having care of him.

(1)

S.I. 1986/594 (N.I. 3)

(2)

S.I. 1996/274 (N.I. 1)

(3)

S.R. 1988 No. 137, the relevant amendments are S.R. 1990 No. 363, S.R. 1993 No. 219 and S.R. 1997 No. 461

(4)

S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2)