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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-opticians-act-1989-amendment-order-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110722671",
  "legislation_title": "The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-opticians-act-1989-amendment-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 13 (supervision of training institutions and qualifying examinations)—\n(a) for the words “institution” and “institutions”, wherever they occur, substitute respectively “establishment” and “establishments”;\n(b) in subsections (1) and (5)(a)(i), for the word “opticians” substitute “optometrists or dispensing opticians”;\n(c) in subsections (1), (2) and (4)(a) and (b), and in the section heading, for the word “examinations” substitute “assessments”;\n(d) in subsection (3), for the word “examination” substitute “assessment”;\n(e) in subsection (5)(a)(ii), for the words “examinations taken” substitute “assessment undertaken”;\n(f) after subsection (5), insert—\n“(5A) Where rules are made under section 23A(2) above, a notice under subsection (5) above or subsection (8) below may be given by means of an electronic communication.”; and\n(g) in subsection (11), omit the words “with the approval of the Privy Council”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110722671/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:22:35.722605+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."
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