{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-ophthalmic-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-ophthalmic-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1999/112",
  "legislation_title": "General Ophthalmic Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-ophthalmic-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 15 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 15 of the principal Regulations (sight tests - eligibility)—\n(a) after paragraph (1)(b) insert—\n“(bb) a person who is aged 60 years or more;”; and\n(b) at the end of paragraph (1)(f) insert “or has been advised by an ophthalmologist that he is predisposed to the development of glaucoma;”;\n(c) after paragraph (2) insert—\n“(2A) In paragraph (1)(f) “ophthalmologist” means a doctor whose name is included in the register of specialists kept by the General Medical Council under Article 8 of the European Specialist Medical Qualifications Order 1995 and in respect of whom that register indicates his speciality to be ophthalmology.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (9.11.2007) by General Ophthalmic Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/436), regs. 1, 23(1), Sch. 3 (with reg. 23(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 1.4.1999, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/3208, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/112/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:20:36.583010+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."
}