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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-consequential-provisions-act-2006/schedule-3/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/43",
  "legislation_title": "National Health Service (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006",
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  "number": "4",
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  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies if paragraphs 10, 12(b), 13(3) and (4), 14, 18, 19, 21(a), 24(b) and 25 of Schedule 8 to the Health Act 2006 (c. 00) have not come into force before the commencement of this Act.\n(2) Until the coming into force of those paragraphs, the references to an optometrist in—\n(a) sections 126 and 275 of, and Schedule 13 to, the National Health Service Act 2006, and\n(b) sections 71, 72, 78, 80, 109, 190, 198 and 206 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006,\nhave effect as references to an ophthalmic optician.",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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