The Healthy Start Scheme (Description of Healthy Start Food) (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020
Title, commencement and interpretation1.
(1)
The title of these Regulations is the Healthy Start Scheme (Description of Healthy Start Food) (Wales) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020.
(2)
These Regulations come into force on 1 October 2020.
(3)
In these Regulations:
Amendment of the principal Regulations2.
(1)
The principal Regulations are amended as follows.
(2)
In regulation 3—
(a)
for “tablets or vitamin drops” substitute “products”; and
(b)
after “containing vitamins” insert “of a form and quantity”.
(3)
In the Schedule—
(a)
in column 1 (category of food) of the table, in the third entry, for “Fresh or frozen” substitute “Fresh, frozen or canned”;
(b)
“Fresh, frozen or canned fruit and vegetables including but not limited to loose, pre-packed, whole, sliced, chopped, or mixed fruit or vegetables, fruit in fruit juice, or fruit or vegetables in water, but not fruit or vegetables to which fat, salt, sugar, flavouring or any other ingredients have been added.”; and
(c)
“Pulses
Fresh, dried or canned pulses, including but not limited to lentils, beans, peas and chickpeas but not pulses to which fat, salt, sugar, flavouring or any other ingredients have been added.”
Amendment to the 2004 Regulations3.
In Schedule 4 to the 2004 Regulations (list of prescribed medical certificates)—
(a)
in column 1 (description of medical certificate) of the table, omit the second entry;
(b)
in column 2 (enactment under or for the purpose of which certificate required) of the table, omit “Section 13 of the Social Security Act 1988 (Schemes for distribution etc of welfare foods)”.
These Regulations amend the Healthy Start Scheme (Description of Healthy Start Food) (Wales) Regulations 2006 (“the principal Regulations”). These Regulations also amend the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2004.
Regulation 2 of the principal Regulations provides that Healthy Start food, in relation to the operation of the Healthy Start scheme in Wales, is as set out in the Schedule to those Regulations. Regulation 2(3) of these Regulations expands the definition of Healthy Start food to include canned fruit and vegetables and pulses.
Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations provides the description of Healthy Start vitamins that will apply in relation to the operation of the Healthy Start scheme in Wales. Regulation 2(2) of these Regulations makes amendments to remove the restriction that Healthy Start vitamins must be provided in tablet or drop form only, with the effect that they may be produced in any form.
Regulation 3 of these Regulations amend the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Wales) Regulations 2004 to remove the requirement to produce a certificate confirming pregnancy for the purposes of obtaining welfare food.
The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.