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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-ophthalmic-services-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/705",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) Amendment Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-ophthalmic-services-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 9 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 9 (removal from ophthalmic list), after paragraph (2) insert the following new paragraph—\n“(2A) In calculating the period of six months referred to in paragraph (2), a Health Authority shall disregard any period during which the contractor provided no general ophthalmic services by reason only that he was suspended by direction of the Tribunal.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/705/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:34.408927+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."
}