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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-registration-and-enrolment-amendment-rules-order-of-council-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1080",
  "legislation_title": "The General Optical Council (Registration and Enrolment (Amendment) Rules) Order of Council 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-registration-and-enrolment-amendment-rules-order-of-council-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThe rules approved by this Order increase with effect from 31st March 2003 the fees payable to the General Optical Council by ophthalmic and dispensing opticians and bodies corporate carrying on business as opticians for registration, enrolment or retention in, restoration to and transfer within the register of opticians. The fees were last fixed with effect from 1st April 2002 and have been increased by 9.5 per cent.\nThis Order also revokes a previous Order of Council which becomes spent on the revocation of rules which are scheduled to it.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1080/note",
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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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