{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contact-lens-specification-and-sight-testing-examination-and-prescription-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contact-lens-specification-and-sight-testing-examination-and-prescription-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2005/291",
  "legislation_title": "Contact Lens (Specification) and Sight Testing (Examination and Prescription) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contact-lens-specification-and-sight-testing-examination-and-prescription-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations set out the particulars which must be given to a patient by a medical practitioner when he issues a specification to a patient to whom he has fitted a contact lens.\nRegulation 2 amends the Sight Testing (Examination and Prescription) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989 “(the Sight Testing Regulations)” so that the duty to issue a written statement as to whether the patient is being referred to a medical practitioner, does not arise in a case to which paragraph 10(2) of Schedule 1 to the General Ophthalmic Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1986 applies. This regulation also extends the exceptions to the duty to issue a prescription or statement in the Sight Testing Regulations to include where a patient is being fitted with contact lenses.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/291/note",
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  },
  "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."
}