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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-contact-lens-specification-rules-order-of-council-1989/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/791",
  "legislation_title": "The General Optical Council Contact Lens (Specification) Rules Order of Council 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-contact-lens-specification-rules-order-of-council-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "OPTICIANS\nMade 8th May 1989\nLaid before Parliament 10th May 1989\nComing into force 1st June 1989\nAt the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 8th day of May 1989\nBy the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council\nWhereas in pursuance of section 25(1)(e) of the Opticians Act 1958 the General Optical Council have made the Contact Lens (Specification) Rules 1989 as set out in the Schedule to this Order:\nAnd Whereas by subsection (5) of the said section such Rules shall not come into force until approved by Order of the Privy Council:\nNow, therefore, Their Lordships, having taken the said Rules into consideration, are hereby pleased to approve the same.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1958 c. 32."
    }
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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."
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