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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-ophthalmic-services-contracts-regulations-2008/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1185",
  "legislation_title": "The General Ophthalmic Services Contracts Regulations 2008",
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  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Reasons",
  "text": "(1) Where a PCT is of the view that the conditions in regulation 4 for entering into a contract are not met, it shall notify the person intending to enter into the contract of—\n(a) that view and its reasons for that view; and\n(b) the person’s right of appeal under regulation 6.\n(2) The PCT shall also notify of that view and its reasons for that view, a director, chief executive or secretary of a corporate body that is notified under paragraph (1), where its reason for the decision relates to that person or those persons.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/365",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Primary Ophthalmic Services) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/365",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (Primary Ophthalmic Services) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1185/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:31:27.718618+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."
}