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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-ophthalmic-services-amendment-no-2-regulations-2001/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-ophthalmic-services-amendment-no-2-regulations-2001/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3739",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-ophthalmic-services-amendment-no-2-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, extent and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 14th December 2001.\n(2) These Regulations extend to England only.\n(3) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) Regulations 1986.\n(4) The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/975; relevant amending Regulations are 1988/486, 1989/395, 1990/1051, 1991/583, 1992/404, 1995/558, 1996/705, 1996/2320, 1999/2562, 1999/2841 and 2001/414."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3739/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:21:56.068639+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."
}