{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contact-lens-specification-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2005/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contact-lens-specification-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2005/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1481",
  "legislation_title": "The Contact Lens (Specification) and Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contact-lens-specification-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Sight Testing Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 4 of the Sight Testing (Examination and Prescription) (No.2) Regulations 1989 (exceptions to the duty to issue a prescription or statement)—\n(a) at the end of paragraph (b), omit “or”; and\n(b) after paragraph (c), insert—\n“; or\n(d) the patient is being fitted with contact lenses as part of the medical or clinical treatment provided for an eye condition.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1230. The Regulations were made under the Opticians Act 1958 (c. 32), but have effect under the Opticians Act 1989 by virtue of the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), section 17(2)(b); regulation 4 was amended by S.I. 2005/848."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1481/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:58:09.734285+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}