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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-ophthalmic-services-amendment-regulations-1999-uksi-1999-693/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/693",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) (Amendment) Regulations 1999",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend the National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) Regulations 1986 which provide for the arrangements under which ophthalmic medical practitioners and ophthalmic opticians provide general ophthalmic services under the National Health Service.\nIn these Regulations, regulation 3 is updated to take account of changes in the qualifications required by ophthalmic medical practitioners. Regulation 13, which sets out who is eligible for free sight tests, has a new category added for persons aged 60 or more. It also extends the category relating to glaucoma to include those who are advised by ophthalmologists (as defined in the new paragraph (2A)) that they are predisposed to developing glaucoma.",
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  "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."
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