{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-ophthalmic-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-ophthalmic-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2014/2",
  "legislation_title": "The General Ophthalmic Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-ophthalmic-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 2 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 2 of the principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions.\n(2) For the definition of “Board” substitute —\n““Board” means the Regional Board;”.\n(3) For the definition of “mobile services” substitute—\n““mobile services” means general ophthalmic services provided at—\n(a) a day care setting;\n(b) a nursing home;\n(c) a residential care home; or\n(d) the patient’s home, where the patient is unable to leave it unaccompanied because of physical or mental illness or disability,\nwhich a contractor has made arrangements with the Board to provide;.”.\n(4) At the appropriate places insert the following definitions—\n““the 2003 Order” means the Health and Personal Social Services (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 ;”;\n““day care setting” has the same meaning as in Article 2 of the 2003 Order;”;\n““medical card” means a card issued to a person by the RBSO in a form approved by the Department for the purpose of enabling that person to obtain or establish a title to receive primary medical services, including maternity medical services, general dental services or general ophthalmic services;”;\n““nursing home” has the same meaning as in Article 2 of the 2003 Order;”;\n““residential care home” has the same meaning as in Article 2 of the 2003 Order;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/431 (N.I. 9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/2/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:08:37.532077+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."
}