{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-ophthalmic-services-amendment-no2-regulations-1996/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-ophthalmic-services-amendment-no2-regulations-1996/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2353",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-ophthalmic-services-amendment-no2-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) Amendment (No.2) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 7th October 1996.\n(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) (Scotland) Regulations 1986.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/965; amending instruments are 1988/543, 1989/387 and 1177, 1990/1048, 1991/534, 1992/531, 1995/704 and 1996/843."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2353/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:35:32.208225+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."
}