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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-maximum-penalty-order-of-council-1994/note",
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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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This Note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order provides that the maximum penalty to be specified in a penalty order made by the Disciplinary Committee of the General Optical Council shall be increased from £1,000, at which figure the maximum penalty was fixed in 1984, to £1,600. This increase of 60% reflects the change in the value of money between July 1984 and August 1994, calculated by reference to the Retail Price Index.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3327/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:19:20.753463+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."
}