{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-ophthalmic-services-etc-amendment-regulations-2006/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1550",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services etc.) Amendment Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-ophthalmic-services-etc-amendment-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, application and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services etc.) Amendment Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 19th July 2006.\n(2) These Regulations apply in relation to England only.\n(3) In these Regulations—\n“the Principal Regulations” means the National Health Service (General Ophthalmic Services) Regulations 1986; and\n“the Schedule” means Schedule 1 (terms of service) to the Principal Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/975."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Relevant amendments to Schedule 1 are by S.I. 1996/705 and 2002/2469."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1550/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:27:21.752972+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."
}