{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-maximum-penalty-order-of-council-1994/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/3327",
  "legislation_title": "The General Optical Council (Maximum Penalty) Order of Council 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-maximum-penalty-order-of-council-1994",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "OPTICIANS\nMade 29th December 1994\nLaid before Parliament 6th January 1995\nComing into force 27th January 1995\nAt the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 29th day of December 1994\nBy the Lords of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council\nWhereas by section 16(2) of the Opticians Act 1989 the maximum penalty which may be specified in a penalty order is set at £1,000 or such sum as is for the time being substituted by an order in force under section 16(3) of that Act:\nAnd whereas it appears to Their Lordships that there has been a change in the value of money since the last occasion when the maximum penalty was fixed by the coming into force of the original penalty provision and that a new maximum penalty of £1,600 is justified by the change:\nNow, therefore, Their Lordships, in exercise of the powers conferred on Them by section 16(3) of the Opticians Act 1989, and of all other powers enabling Them in that behalf, are pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "“The original penalty provision” means section 10c of the Opticians Act 1958 (c. 32) (which was inserted in that Act by section 4 of the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48) and replaced by section 16 of the Opticians Act 1989)."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3327/introduction",
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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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