{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-security-act-1984/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-security-act-1984/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/48",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Security Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-security-act-1984",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Supply etc. of optical appliances.",
  "text": "1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) The following provisions of section 26 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 (arrangements for provision of general ophthalmic services) shall cease to have effect—\n(a) subsection (1)(b); and\n(b) in subsection (2)(c), the words “and the ophthalmic or dispensing optician who is to supply the appliances”.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) The amendments of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 contained in Part II of that Schedule shall have effect in consequence of subsection (5) above.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1(1)(2) repealed (16.2.1990) by Opticians Act 1989 (c. 44), s. 37, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 1(3)(4)(6) repealed (1.3.2007) by National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 (c. 43), s. 8(2), Sch. 4 (with Sch. 2 Pt. 1, Sch. 3 Pt. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1978 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1978 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 1(3)–(7) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/48/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:01:16.156848+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."
}