{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-registration-and-enrolment-amendment-rules-order-of-council-2004/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/258",
  "legislation_title": "The General Optical Council (Registration and Enrolment (Amendment) Rules) Order of Council 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-registration-and-enrolment-amendment-rules-order-of-council-2004",
  "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 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 2003 and have been increased by an average of 18 per cent with effect from 1st April 2004, with the exception of the retention fee which is increased with effect from the coming into force of the Rules for payments made to be retained on the register for the year 1st April 2004 to 31st March 2005.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/258/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."
}